Topic > The Difference Between Socrates and Hobbes - 1666

Socrates has a more realistic view of government, as it is made up of people who are just as fallible as those who govern. Hobbes believes that the government is incapable of committing injustice as perceived by its subjects, but he fails to consider the limits of the government's knowledge of justice and holds the government to unreasonable standards of perfection. These views would lead Hobbes to support the Court's decision while Socrates would doubt it, and I would side with Socrates, if only because I know that no legal system can be as perfect as Hobbes would like.