HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Omnipotence, Absolute Monarchy, Fronde
16/11/2015
Lecture 15
The Absolute State
18th Century
T. HOBBES (1588-1679)
LEVIATHAN (1651)
LOUIS XIV (1643-1715)
J. MAZARIN (D. 1661)
FRONDE
J-B. COLBERT (COLBERT (D. 1683)
• Richelieu spent his career trying to make Louis 13th absolute
• Misery and violence ensued
• Europe was very unstable, everything was changing (church, power of monarchy, roles
in society, etc.)
• Religious and civil wars following the Reformation
• People were willing to sacrifice their individual freedom for stability
• Thomas Hobbes
Professional intellectual
Loyalist
Suggested a secular notion of kingship
State was omnipotent, competent, monster
all orporatios, odies, ad assoiatios ithi the state are ut ors…
life i the state of ature asty, rutish, ad short…
only way to escape was to start building a civil society ensure the law applied
to everyone, etc.
suggested a contract
people gave up everything for security, reduce or restrict power of the ruler
a’t go ak o this argai
responsibility to the idea of security and protection—people can be blamed for
all issues
what is not material is not real
rite LEVIATHAN i 11
gave a model for the successful state of a government
• during this time, Louis 14th became king for over 70 years
I a the state… L’etats ’est oi…
good king and model
• Mazarin
ated to udo Rihelieu’s poliies
prince of the Roman Catholic church
people did’t hate hi the ay they had hated Rihelieu
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