Explain and critically examine Hobbes’s account in chapter XXIXof the following five seditious opinions or “doctrines†that tendweaken or dissolve commonwealths: “That every private man isJudge of Good and Evill actionsâ€; “that whatsoever a mandoes against his Conscience, is Sinneâ€; “That everyprivate man has an absolute Propriety [i.e. a natural right toproperty] in his Goods; such, as excludeth the Right of theSoveraignâ€; “That the Soveraign Power may bedivided.†What basic elements of his philosophy appear tosupport his conclusion that these doctrines are “seditious†(in abroad sense of “seditious†which means being harmful to politicalauthority and social order)? Do you agree with these conclusionsand the reasons he sets forth in Leviathan to supportthem? Explain why or why not, in your well-reasoned opinion.(<800 22 points)
