Part I, Chapter 14
Defines the right of nature and lays down the fundamental law of nature: 'to seek peace, and follow it,' and the second law: lay down rights in exchange for the same liberty from others.
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From Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
Hobbes distinguishes the right of nature (liberty to preserve oneself) from laws of nature (rational precepts forbidding self-destruction), with the first law commanding peace and the second the mutual laying down of rights.
Part I, Chapter 15
Enumerates further laws of nature including justice, gratitude, equity, and contains the negative golden rule: 'Do not that to another, which thou wouldest not have done to thy selfe.'
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