What if Hobbes, or your interpretation of Hobbes, is wrong? You still haven't demonstrated how equality and liberty interact.
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What if Hobbes, or your interpretation of Hobbes, is wrong? You still haven't demonstrated how equality and liberty interact.
1/ If liberty is interepreted as absence of restraint then it will assume unbriddled liberty, okay let me ask u one question if u say it is ur libery to do wahtever u want, to d extent u want to make me slave will that be called liberty? NO
But that is not, and has never been, my definition of liberty. Meanwhile, you asserted this all somehow leads to needing the State, a territorial monopoly in violence.
U belive it or not...but state is a necessary evil.
The State is indeed evil, but evil is never necessary. Society functions in spite of, rather than because of, the State and the violence people commit in its name. Politics as we know it is the antithesis of consent.
1/ State is a necessary eveil--- it's a contemplation of laissez faire inidivisualism which contemplates minimal role of the state and particularly for those functions which can not be taken up by private entity.
There is nothing about laissez-faire which necessitates a monopoly state. What functions do you believe cannot be handled by a decentralized voluntary private system? Natural monopolies aren't really a thing.
Law & order
Security from External threat
national security and sovereignty
common minimum services
2/ And liberal theory and laissezfaire individualism treats state as the means and individual as the end.
Politics is reconcilitation of conflicting claims of diff individuals, conflicting thoughts of individuals/groups/society.
Not even slightly. Dispute resolution and conflict resolution does not require a coercive monopoly. Politics is plunder disguised as societal cooperation.
2/ That means one's liberty should not interfere someone else's equal liberty....which means for liberty to become universal principle it must be qualified...and qualified by equal liberty to ensure a just order in the society.
Liberty constrained by spheres of authority. The right to exclude. Reciprocal recognition of the right of others to the same. None of this contradicts me or necessarily supports you.