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Essay / The difference between Socrates and Hobbes - 1666
Socrates has a more realistic view of government, in that it is made up of people just as fallible as those they govern. Hobbes finds that the government is incapable of injustice as perceived by its subjects, but disregards the limits of a government's knowledge of justice and imposes unreasonable standards of perfection on the government. These views would cause 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 it to be..