Probably not, since, as feminist critics among others have noted, children are by Hobbes's theory assumed to have undertaken an obligation of obedience to their parents in exchange for nurturing, and so the primitive units in the state of nature will include families ordered by internal obligations, as well as individuals.
His secret police, the Tontons Macoutes, behaved with the complete immorality and obedience of the undead, and were sometimes assumed to be zombies under the dictator's control.
And while a rigorist might say that dissent is dissent is dissent, the fact that the church has to woo and convince and sometimes reconvert its own baptized members, rather than assuming their docility and obedience, is an opportunity as well as a burden — and a challenge that the church's leaders and most loyal adherents should be eager to rise to meet.
These things cannot fail to happen in a culture where sin is assumed, guilt is encouraged, a rigid hierarchy is present, power is misused, secrecy abounds and unquestioning obedience is required.
By his filial obedience and willingness to assume responsibility, he has forfeited the joys of impulse.
Given that, due to the balancing of the samples, their rearing social environment did not differ from that of subjects in the other groups (most of them lived in the house and had obedience or agility training), we assume that genetic factors may have influenced their performance.
These, then, I assume, are the detrimental consequences that will be produced by obedience to the subpoena.
Rather, the slogans describe what Thrasymachus sees as the standard effects of just behavior, assuming the traditional Hesiodic understanding of what justice is (i.e., obedience to nomos and restraint of pleonexia).
I have only to assume that it's some kind of a fanatical reaction or slavish obedience to a contingency plan". In the most extensive U.S. air action over the gulf, an American A-6 Intruder bomber, launched from the carrier Enterprise in the northern Arabian Sea just outside the gulf, destroyed one Iranian speedboat and badly damaged the other two.
No-one owes obedience to a government that has usurped power or to those who assume functions or public posts by the force of arms or using means or procedures that rupture or deny what the Constitution and the laws establish.
Consent supposes that obligations of obedience must be somehow undertaken by acts the point of which is to assume an obligation.
