This quote is one of three that I will be explaining to you. First I will translate what this means into words that may be understood today. What each individual person thinks about leadership comes from what they believe about human nature. We all have our own views even if some are the same; we will have varying differences somewhere in our beliefs. I am now going to break down what I said above by its different pieces. A leader will determine his/her own philosophies, now I will show you the second part. These philosophies are created based on the beliefs of human nature. So what I have just told you I will now explain. If a leader believes that human nature is civilized then his leadership will lead to a civil way of leading. Now I agree that this statement is true, but most people will think that leaders will always lead fairly and with the people’s interest at heart. But the reality is leaders always lead people with their own self gain in mind, they are always calculating the best move for themselves.
"The governed have a responsibility for their governance."
This quote is saying that the people have a responsibility to do something about the way they are ruled, for example if there are three people and one person is the “ruler” per say and the two are the governed and they don’t like the way they are being ruled it is there duty to do something about that. I Hobbs think that this quote should be ripped up and thrown away. The people have no right to do something about how they are being ruled because they chose to let another party come and take control so that they would not have to fight each other. People simply can’t just say I don’t like how you… and everything changes, that’s not how it’s done. The people are ruled and they have no say in how they are being ruled.
This quote is telling us that human nature does not decide what we do it just gives us a little push to do something. So say someone is deciding if they should steal something from a store there human nature will push them to do it, but they may do the opposite of their nature is telling them to do. This is a true statement because the person would analyze exactly what could be gained by doing something and what could be lost by doing it. Self gain and interest are part of what we do and how we decide to do things.
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