Political Science · Western Political Thought
UGC NET 2023 Political Science
With which book is the following statement related, 'Law is the command of that person whose precept contains the reason of obedience.'?
ADe Cive ✓ Correct
BLeviathan
CThird Letter on Toleration
DRationale of Evidence
Correct answer: (A) De Cive — The statement that law is the command of the person whose precept contains the reason of obedience is linked to Hobbes's De Cive.
Explanation
★The statement that law is the command of the person whose precept contains the reason of obedience is linked to Hobbes's De Cive.
★De Cive, published in 1642, is one of Hobbes's major works on the citizen and the state, preceding Leviathan.
★For Hobbes law is not advice or natural reason but the command of the sovereign, who holds coercive power.
★The obligation to obey rests both on the law being a legal command and on the authority behind it.
★This command theory of law makes Hobbes a forerunner of legal positivism, later developed by Bentham and Austin.
★The Third Letter on Toleration belongs to Locke, and the Rationale of Evidence to Bentham, so neither fits.
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