POL200Y1 Lecture 7: leviathan ch 1-10
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He provides a liberal argument for despotism, but we have to understand that this is a new kind of despotism, and that hobbes" arguments only require the slightest modifications to be arguments for liberal democracy. Hobbes proceeds to reinvent the prince as the faithful servant of the people (concerning himself entirely with their welfare) Hobbes is much more our sort of thinker than machiavelli. In machiavelli"s discourse, he likens himself to columbus in his dedicatory. Presenting himself as the great new discoverer of the mind. Out of the machiavellian materials of thought, hobbes builds a new way of life that is contrary to machiavelli. What had happened in between hobbes coming a century and a half after. Well, there was the reformation, and the continent was swept by global international wars and civil wars. Also was the emergence of modern science (francis. Bacon one of the most profound of them, a student of machiavelli and a friend of.