![]() 14.4: The first and fundamental law of nature … is to seek peace, and to follow it, … the sum of the right of nature, which is by all means we can to defend ourselves. ![]() … Right consisteth in liberty to do or to forbear, whereas Law determineth and bindeth to one of them, so that law and right differ as much as obligation and liberty. … The Law of Nature ( lex naturalis) is a precept or general rule found out by reason by which a man is forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life or taketh away the means of preserving the same. 14.1–3: The Right of Nature, which writers commonly call jus naturale, is the liberty each man hath to use his own power … for the preservation of his own nature, that is to say, his own life. … And as to the faculties of the mind … I find yet a greater equality amongst men than that of strength. ![]() ![]() For as to strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest. 13.1–2: Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind as that … the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he. ![]()
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