belief than that of the sovereign, he must be forced to comply with the sovereigns rule in order to maintain the integrity of the society. For Hobbes if you dont join the society and agree to the establishment of a sovereign, then everyone else has the right to either force you to join, or they have the right to do harm to you. The reason being that one individual that still resides in the state of nature will have the right to everything and this in itself threatens everyone elses safety. The sovereign is above the social contract as well. If the sovereign was part of the contract and there was a dispute, then you would fall back into the state of nature, thus the sovereign is above the rule in order to maintain order. The only way that the sovereign can be challenged is when the people, as a whole, determine that the rule is no longer working for their good or has become corrupt, in which case they may remove that government. Otherwise, the people must comply with the supreme power that they had set in place.Although Vico is along the lines of Hobbes in maintaining the government, he has one specific theory that Hobbes does not. In addition to the defined natural law of man, he states there is a natural law of history, which fundamentally states that man is doomed to repeat his own history in a continuous cycle. When society reaches a certain level, it can only be sustained for so long, in which case man will regress back to his barbaric nature forcing the regime to tumble requiring man to start again. Several causes of this are stated such as the progression of man to the point that he realizes his leaders are no better than himself and he revolts, however this phenomenon can occur for just about any reason, and is ultimately inevitable, according to Vico.Hobbes on the other hand, believes that there is no requirement that the regime will fall, but that the only way chaos will return is when man himself allows it to return, ...
