>>2933646>>2933648That is the idea.
"Mine" and "thine" is mediated by the Sovereign, who is the collective "mine" and "thine".
Property is only excluded from other subjects, but your sense of "property" is in the same way that a child has possessions in his father's house. Technically, the father owns the entire house, but you still get your particular room and items.
As far as Hobbes is concerned, this is as good as it gets.
Without security to procure any fruits of property, there would be no foundation for property at all without unceasing interruption and jockeying (which is no basis for any prosperity, you cannot begin any industrial venture if it keeps being interrupted on insecure grounds).
Hobbes cites Cicero (a staunch proponent of liberty) for proof of this:
Thomas Hobbes>Which is so evident, that even Cicero, (a passionate defender of Liberty,) in a public pleading, attributes all Propriety to the Law Civil, "Let the Civil Law," says he, "be once abandoned, or but negligently guarded, (not to say oppressed,) and there is nothing, that any man can be sure to receive from his Ancestor, or leave to his Children." And again; "Take away the Civil Law, and no man knows what is his own, and what another man's." This is ultimately back to the guarantee of arbiters.
Where does your property begin or end? –You cannot just say, "This is mine" over someone else's "thine" without conflict. That is the role of the arbiter to mediate and say, "This is thine" to you and "This is thine" to someone else, and the "mine" and "thine" between every person of the State is manifest through the cult of personality of the Sovereign, who is the person for all persons, bringing all of "mine" and "thine" into harmony, so everyone can feel at peace with each other.
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