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| 34a19bf | Of course, injustice had been perpetrated in the pre-En-lightenment period also, and yet, as Guardini (1950:39) argues, people then had a bad conscience about it. Now, in true Machiavellian style, expediency became more important than morality, and people could exploit others with impunity. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) propounded a theory of the state which declared it to be the absolute lord and judge of human life, a theory which would, in t.. | David J. Bosch |