State and government notes. Hobbes Pt. Governments, rulers or state during this period and the many centuries after that mainly depended on persuasion rather than coercion. Despite the Catholic origin of these ideas, which may or may not have found broad appeal, the very denial of church authority in the temporal realm, coupled with the assertion that the nature of man, his rights and duties, is but the nature of the sovereign state and governing hierarchy in its rights and obligations toward society, proves, I believe, to be a modern argument forging, in a sense, an essentially secular state architecture, and, moreover, an unwavering critical attitude toward power that is also constitutive of contemporary critical statements
can love be conditional state conduct. Terms and Conditions. The idea of a ruling authority as recognizing no superior, the organic conception of the state in which orogin potestas brings society explain the divine theory of origin of state unity and directs that very society toward determinate ends justice, the common good, peaceand the accompanying notion that self-sufficiency o the ability to licitly punish wrongdoers and to defend the state against illicit attack or intervention, furnishes Vitoria's political theory with distinctively modern attire.