Hobbes The Fool

A covenant is a contracted agreement in which it is trusted that both persons will carry out their responsibility in time. This can be referred to as the keeping of a promise. “The mutual transferring of right, is that which men call CONTRACT.” This means that when you exchange something in return for something else you are binding yourself to the agreement of the exchange. “One of the contractors, may deliver the thing contracted for …

…be a possible situation in which these laws may apply but in a different sense. This would be in the case of the Martyr, for I wonder if it is unjust to sacrifice your life for a cause greater than your own, or to promise your life in exchange for another person’s life, and then break the promise because it is self destruction. Bibliography Note: All quotes taken from excerpt of Thomas Hobbes, “Leviathan”