HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Fronde, Nepotism, Complete Control
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Creation of new kind of state --> absolute state. Working to make royal master absolute -- can do whatever they want with- out anyone to stop them; ability to go beyond the law, create the law. Thomas hobbes (1588-1679): saw this was a time of disarray; people look- ing for measure of comfort, security. Hobbes = rejected arguments of charles i -- can only be tried by peers (kings), can only be judged by god (divine right to rule by god, only answerable to god) Hobbes - proposed secular notion of kingship (rther than divine right to rule) Leviathan (1651) = compares state to monster. In the beginning - people were governed by brute force (strong preyed upon the weak) --> strong had the most power (no golden age in na- ture; only strongest could exercise their will) Nasty, brutish, short = life in this age.
