Though Hobbes consistently differentiates between the ‘subject’ and ‘servant’ across Elements of Law, On the Citizen, and Leviathan, we currently lack an exhaustive account of the Hobbesian servant. In this paper, I argue that the distinction would have profound consequences for one’s disposition toward both the commonwealth and the community at large. Because the servant joins under the immediate threat of violence and covenants directly with the sovereign, we would expect her initial experience to contribute to a fundamentally more pessimistic attitude toward the commonwealth and atomistic understanding of her place in the body politic. On one level, this distinction could be used to distinguish privileged populations from otherwise marginalized groups. On another level, however, in revealing both the brute reality of sovereign power and the ways in which she is alienated from it, the servant gives us a more accurate understanding of the commonwealth than the subject’s own.

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“希望渺茫”

尽管霍布斯在《法律要素》、《公民论》和《利维坦》中始终区分“主体”和“仆人”，但我们目前缺乏对霍布斯仆人的详尽描述。在本文中，我认为这种区别会对一个人对联邦和整个社区的倾向产生深远的影响。因为仆人在直接的暴力威胁下加入，并直接与主权者立约，我们预计她的最初经历有助于对联邦和对她在政治体中地位的原子理解从根本上更加悲观。在一个层面上，这种区别可用于区分特权人群和其他边缘群体。然而，在另一个层面上，