Thomas Hobbes on “the breaking of covenants” and the “deceiving” of others (1651)
The following is taken from Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan, ed. Edwin Curley (Hackett, 1994 [orig. 1651]), ch. xv, ¶ 5, pp. 91-92; the first two bracketed insertions are mine, the third that of the…
