Which influential thinker believed that justice is identified with positive law, the form of which was to be determined by a strong sovereign (in the moderns sense, the state), rather than with some set of universal principles?

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Thomas Hobbes believed that justice is identified with positive law established by a strong sovereign or state, rather than with universal principles. He argued that in the absence of a powerful government to impose laws, life would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

Which Influential Thinker Believed That Justice Is Identified with Positive