Neumann 124 , who is rationally self-interested, but does not play well with others, so to speak, and so seeks the protection of the state against the misdirected self-interest of others. Where the more flattering ascriptions of Locke and Rousseau, shared by Mill, who feel that humanity is essentially benign and co-operative by nature, and that the role of the sovereign is facilitation, of governance and apportionment, and the aversion of disputes between collections of individuals 125 . These disagreements in turn lead to differing conclusions about the limits of the power of the sovereign. For Hobbes, the sovereign state stands as a permanent bulwark against the bellum omnium , or struggle for survival and selfish interests that result in the state of nature. Thus, the sovereign is not subject to the limits on 124 “It may seem strange to some man, that has not well weighed these things; that Nature should thus dissociate, and render men apt to invade, and destroy one another:...” Ibid., and “It is not surprising that in some respects man's biological equipment has not kept pace with that rapid change, that the adaptation of his non-rational part has lagged somewhat, and that many of his instincts and emotions are still more adapted to the life of a hunter than to life in civilization.” Hayek, F. A., The Constitution of Liberty , at http://www.libertarianismo.org/livros/tcolfh.pdf, retrieved 14/04/2016 at 15:00 p.m., p. 40. See also von Neumann, J. And Morgenstern, O., The Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour , PUP, Princeton, 1944, and the rules of “So Long Sucker” created by Hausner, M., Nash , J., Shapley, L. S. And Shubik, M. 125 “The state of Nature has a law of Nature to go vern it, which obliges every one, and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions;” Locke, J., Two Treatises of Government , at http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/locke/government.pdf, p. 107, and both Rousseau’s discussion of the social compact in Ch. 6 of The Social Contract at http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/rousseau1762.pdf and paragraph 12 of Mill’s introductory chapter to On Liberty at http://www.bartleby.com/130/1.html, both retrieved 14/06/2016 at 15:53 p.m.
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