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(12)Wolin, p. 46.
(13)Rousseau, p. 113.
( 1 4 ) J a c que sMa r ita in, The Per son and the Commo n
Goo d (N 0 t reDarne, I n d .: Not r e Dam e Pre s s, 19 7 2 ), P .
11. For a clear, if less than critical, presentation
of Maritain'srather complicated and sometimes difficult
argument see Charles Fecher, The Philosophy of
Jacques Maritain (Westminster, Md.: Newman Press,
1953), pp. 197-226.
(15)Maritain, p. 38.
( 16) I bid., pp.50- 51 •
( 17) I bid., pp. 65- 66 •
(18)Ibid., p. 54.
(19)See Jacques Maritain, Man and the State
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951), p. 114.
(20)Ibid., p. 101.
(21 )Mar ita in, The Person and the Common Good, p.
54. Also see p. 68.
( 2 2 ) I bid ., p p. 6 6 -67 • "And wh en • • . rna n f r eel y
accepts death," Maritain remarks, "not as an enslaved
fan a tic 0 r b lin d vic tim, but a s a rna nand a cit i zen ,
for the sake of his people and his country, in that
very act of extraordinary virtue, he affirms at the
same time the supreme independence of the person in re­
I a t ion tot h e t h i n g s 0 f t his wo rid. I n los i ng itself,
in the temporal sense, for the sake of the city, the
per son sacr i f icesits elf, inthe m0 s t rea I and com pie t e
fashion. Yet the person is not defeated. The city
still serves it because the soul of man is immortal and
because the sacrifice gives grace one more change." p.
66.
(23)Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (New York:
Washington Square Press, 1969), PP. 84-85.
(24)Ibid. For a modern variation of the Hobbesian
a r gum e n t see Win s t on Bush, "I nd i v i d ua I We I farei n
Anarchy," Explorations in the Theory of Anarchy, ed.
Gordon Tullock (Blacksburg: Center for the Study of
Public Choice, 1972), pp. 5-18.
( 25 ) J 0 h n L 0 c k e, " Second Tr eatis e ," Two Tr ea tises
of Government, ed. Peter Laslett (New York: New
Arne rican Lib r a r y, 1963), p. 311.
( 2 6 ) I tis c I ear t hat therei s rnorethan a g r a i n 0 f
truth in Professor Leo Strauss's observation that Locke
is really Hobbes in sheep's clothing. But, while Locke
may be Hobbes in sheep's clothing, he is not just that.
See Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1953).
(27)Locke, pp. 395-99.
(28)Herbert Spencer, The Man Versus the State
(Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton, 1960), p. 196.
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