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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

Thomas Hobbes
Men, Judging, May
Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

No man can be judge to his own cause.

Thomas Hobbes
Men, Judging, Causes
Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.203

Another doctrine repugnant to Civill Society, is that whatsoever a man does against his Conscience, is Sinne ; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of Good and Evill. For a man's Conscience and his Judgement are the same thing, and as the Judgement, so also the Conscience may be erroneous.

Thomas Hobbes
Men, Judging, Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.210, 谷月社

Christian Kings may erre in deducing a Consequence, but who shall Judge?

Thomas Hobbes
Christian, Kings, Judging
Thomas Hobbes (2012). “Leviathan”, p.342, Courier Corporation

And therefore, as when there is a controversy in an account, the parties must by their own accord, set up for right Reason, the Reason of some Arbitrator, or Judge, to whose sentence, they will both stand, or their controversy must either come to blows, or be undecided, for want of a right Reason constituted by Nature; so is it also in all debates of what kind soever.

Thomas Hobbes
Party, Blow, Judging
Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.25, Hackett Publishing

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