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THIS ARTICLE STATES THAT THE SPEAKERS IN THUCYDIDES WHO GIVE VOICE THESIS THAT MIGHT IS RIGHT DO NOT GENERALLY THINK THAT WHAT THEY ARE RELEASING UPON THE WORLD IS A WAR OF ALL AGAINST ALL. ON THE CONTRARY, THEY ARE HOPEFUL, LIKE THE MODEL UTITARIANS THEY ANTICIPATE, THAT THEIR REALISTIC ASSESSMENT OF HUMAN MOTIVES CAN SERVE AS THE FOUNDATION OF AN INTER-STATE ORDER BASED NOT ON JUSTICE BUT ON CLEAR AND CERTAIN POWER RELATIONS. THIS ARTICLE REVIEWS THE SPEAKER, DIODOTUS, WHO SEEMS AT ODDS WITH THE SOPHISTIC RATIONALISM HE SPEAKS ABOUT.

HOBBESIAN? THE QUESTION ADDRESSED BY THIS ESSAY IS WHETHER THOMAS HOBBES IS THE TRUE INTELLECTUAL FOREBEAR OF JOHN LOCKE. A BRIEF COMPARISON OF THE TEACHINGS OF THESE TWO AUTHORS WITH RESPECT TO NATURAL JUSTICE AND CIVIL JUSTICE WOULD SEEM TO SUGGEST THAT LOCKE IS A DETERMINED ADVERSARY OF HOBBES WHOSE VIEWS ON JUSTICE ARE REDUCIBLE TO THE MAXIM THAT "MIGHT MAKES RIGHT". BUT A REEXAMINATION OF LOCKE'S SECOND TREATISE SHOWS THAT LOCKE ADOPTS THIS PRINCIPLE WITH HARDLY LESS THOROUGHNESS THAN HOBBES. EVEN SO, AN IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE REMAINS, FOR LOCKE TAKES STEPS TO DISGUISE THE GRIM REALITY OF POWER, WHEREAS HOBBES MAKES THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF PEOPLE THE SINE QUA NON OF HIS POLITICAL SCIENCE. LOCKE'S DEPARTURE FROM HOBBES IS SEEN AS AN ATTEMPT TO INSTILL IN THE BODY POLITIC A DEGREE OF JUSTICE THAT WOULD NOT OTHERWISE EXIST.

AFTER DISCUSSING THE "ANCIENT QUAREL BETWEEN POETRY AND PHILOSOPHY AS DECRIBED BY SOCRATES IN THE REPUBLIC, THIS PAPER REVIEWS THE TEMPEST AS SHAKESPEARE'S TESTIMONY CONCERNING THE "ANCIENT QUARREL."