POL200Y5 Chapter Notes -Vise, Crosier, Euclidean Geometry
22 Apr 2014
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Leviathan: begins with an account of the units of the external world and what is out there. It works that account into an account about human nature. Hobbes then works that into an account of social life and the legitimate state: hobbes wrote leviathan during a period of political appeal. The english civil world was fought over two things: the nature and extent of royal power. Or restrained by parliament who follow the will of the people. The fundamental issue was money: bourgeois vs. king, constitutionally the war established the precedent that an english monarch cannot rule without the consent of the parliament, the second issue was religion. England; regardless of the strains of christianity throughout the place. Their desire for religious freedom took away any authority of the king: hobbes is writing after the french wars of religion between catholics and protectants. The political authority related by the social contract. Its a beast whose power is unsurpassed on earth.
