Thomas Hobbes

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Politics

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Leviathan

Leader

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Authoritarian

Wants strong leadership,more rules

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The social contract

Agreement between the state and the people in which the people agree to follow certain rules for protection

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Political spectrum

Right wing

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Human rights

• Argued that humans are naturally selfish and driven by self interest

• Life is full of anger, violence and constant fear

• Famously said’ The life of a man is solitary, poor, nasty Brutish and short’

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Religion

• He was Atheist

• Are you at the church hold some responsibility for the outbreak of civil War

• Supreme authority on Earth rest with the sovereign rather the church

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Government and state

• Strong and powerful state

• Absolute monarchy

• You must obey your leader at all times(Unless they threaten your life)

• They could live either without government in the state of nature or under a strong powerful government

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