thomas hobbes and absolutism
In the time of Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679), absolutism was the type of government that was practiced and was believed to be the right thing. Absolutism is a system in which one man has absolute power over the people. This absolute power was believed to come from God. The ruler or Monarch, was supposedly carrying out the will of God. Hobbes, who is a Brittish philosopher and political theorist, may have been ahead of his time. He believed in absloutism but his idea of absloutism was different from what was commonly believed. Hobbes was a believer in the new scientific thought and that mathematical knowledge was the way to the truth. Though Hobbes supported absolutism, he did not believe that the ruler's power derived from God. Hobbes believed in the Common Wealth system.131 This is a system, like absolutism, in which there is one absolute ruler. In Hobbes' system this ruler does not get his power from God, but he gets it more from the people.
r less all men are created eqaul in every aspect, pyhsically and as well as mentally. Hobbes has said that without government all men would be in a state of war. Having one leader for all men puts them all on the same page, so more could get accomplished and have less competition. His ideas were better than what was going on in that time. If two or more men want someting that they cannot all have are at war. For his day, his ideas were very good because it got away from the idea that the Monarch got his rule from God. Hobbes believes that all people have the same desires and motives. He believed that humans are basicly selfish and only look out for themselves. It was like the beginings of the seperation of church and state. There must be an absolute ruler to carry out the will of all men. Hobbes believed that the ruler should be a person with absolute rule but it is not the will of God but the will of the people. These catagories included clergy, lord, serf and other levels of society. This is because people are not driven by reason, but by passion, according to Hobbes. In his time all men were put into catagories in which you could not better yourself. I think that Hobbes may have been ahead of his time.
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