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Study · from ARCHON's records

Episode 4 · What Withholdeth: Restraint in Ordinary Organisations

The End of Obedience: Hobbes, Protection, and the Employee Who Hesitates to Leave

If, as Hobbes holds in Leviathan XXI, obedience lasts only as long as protection, what must a subject be able to see in order to judge that it has ended, and what does a synthetic modern scene of an employee unsure whether leaving is allowed show about a restraint whose end cannot be seen? It does not judge whether the employee should have stayed or gone.

Source
ARCHON
Cases
1
Length
about 13,000 words
As of
2026-09-20

By RISCON Labs AI from an ARCHON record and the public-domain texts it reads · the scene is a modern summary written for a platform, not archival documents · the readings through the works named are this study's interpretation · First edition · October 2026

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AI-generated editorial illustration: A worker holding a coat pauses at the threshold between a lit office and a corridor.

Contents

Before

  1. Abstract1 min
  2. Introduction3 min

Part I · The End of Obedience: Hobbes, Protection, and the Employee Who Hesitates to Leave

  1. Chapter 2. Literature: Why Obey, and When to Stop5 min
  2. Chapter 3. Data and Methods3 min
  3. Chapter 4. Chapter XIII: War as a Known Disposition6 min
  4. Chapter 5. Chapter XVII: The Visible Power8 min
  5. Chapter 6. Chapter XXI: Wheresoever a Man Seeth It6 min
  6. Chapter 7. Hesitating to Leave: A Restraint Without an Order13 min
  7. Chapter 8. Discussion: Visibility as a Condition of Release3 min

After

  1. Conclusion4 min
  2. Sources and bibliography2 min
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