1. On this topic, see Martin A. Bertman, ‘Equality in Hobbes, with reference to Aristotle’, Review of Politics, XXVIII (1976) 534–44.
2. Gary B. Herbert, ‘Thomas Hobbes’s counterfeit equality’, Southern Journal of Philosophy, 14 (1976) 269–82, 271.
3. Joel Kidder, ‘Acknowledgements of equals: Hobbes’s ninth law of nature’, Philosophical Quarterly, 33 (1983) 133–46, 141.
4. For a typical example, see David P. Gauthier, The Logic of Leviathan. The moral and political theory of Thomas Hobbes. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969), 15.
5. It seems to me that Hobbes is one of the few writers in the history of political thought that establish the equality of people by taking what Bernard Williams, in his inspirational essay on equality (‘The idea of Equality’ in Peter Laslett and W.G. Runciman (eds), Philosophy, Politics, and Society. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1962), pp. 110–131) defines as the technical point of view, contrasted with the human point of view, adopted, for example, by Kant.