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Adorno XIII 249
Truth/Hobbes/Adorno: Hobbes represents a doctrine of the two truths, the natural and the supernatural truth, and leaves the supernatural truth simply to the doctrine of the church. This can also be traced back to a late medieval tradition.
One has the impression that Hobbes himself does not take the religious or metaphysical categories seriously as such. They appear in him only from the point of view of the means of reign by which the state is to be strengthened.
>Christian Church, >State, >Governance.

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Höffe I 222
Truth/Hobbes/Höffe: [Context here: Hobbes' legal theory]: (...) the truth that Hobbes rejects as a reason for validity(1) [is] an insight that is indeed not yet a reason for validity as such. Hobbes here rejects a legal moralism that considers mere insight into injustice to be a sufficient argument for declaring the corresponding law invalid.
>Validity, >Law.

1. Hobbes, Leviathan, Chap. 26.

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