The crisis of modernity within political liberalism can be seen as a result of modern man slowly losing faith in reason and trust. In addition to, as a substantial factor in arguments that modern man will do anything he to achieve his vision of what “greater human life is or can be”. Through the reflection of the thoughts, experiences, and writings of Thomas Hobbes, one can can begin to question where the crisis arises from. Hobbes argues that “modern man no longer knows what he wants” and has lost “faith in reason’s ability to validate its highest aims” manifesting into a spiraling crisis where modern man creates a destructive path between “greater life” and the trust that binds human society together. Furthermore, argues that are distant …show more content…
Yet, trust or lack thereof is the central to all of Hobbes’ political and philosophical ideologies. Hobbes’s reflects these ideologies about trust in many, if not all of his writings. In Leviathan Hobbes defines trust as “an opinion of the veracity of man.” In the writing of The Elements of Law, trust is illustrated as “a passion of the mind, which consists in the absence of doubts about the trustworthiness of the trusted person, which is the belief that she intends no other plans than the ones she pretends to have.” Lastly, Hobbes continues his idea trust in the writing of De Cieve, stating that there is a distant “difference between “an ‘agreement’, where trust is present and allows the postponement of the performance of what is promised, and the ‘contract, where there is no trust and when both parties perform immediately.” These accounts demonstrates the foundations of trust being the relationship between faith and human nature and the forming connection between the two concepts. To understand this formation of trust, one must understand that Hobbes’s opinions and insights grew out of a neoRoman account of slavery, being reflected in the Hobbes approach of trust originates from the transformation of the fundamentals of neoRoman view of service. Which he later inherited from English thinkers Brackton and Coke, which, Hobbes’s adapted for the development of his own political and philosophical purposes. Hobbes’s …show more content…
Thus allowing for the freedom of the individual, which includes the absence of death or destruction. This bonding relationship between the two is more developed and or complex then what meets the eye. Hobbes continues to re-farm the Roman rational of a trusting relationship inculcating notions of future behavior, reflecting the idea of a trusted promise. “When two parties trust one another, it means they have assured each another about a future exchange of some good which the other values.”(…) This so called “exchange of some good” for humans with a community would mutual assure that individuals could trust one another to do their part even when they could not keep an eye on each other. Hobbes continues to develop his notion of this trusted relationship by resolving the agency of “sovereignty by acquisition.” (25 in…) Hobbes is careful to note the servant’s part: “If a Subject be taken prisoner in war or his person, or his means of life be within the Guards of the enemy…. He hath Libertie to accept the condition; and having accepted it, is the subject of him that took him; because he had no other way to preserver himself.” Exposing a large amount of insight into the Hobbes’s rationality that one cannot have trust with any relationship with humanity if no cannot have the acceptance of liberty. In addition, Hobbes elaborates this