PHIL2634 Study Guide - Final Guide: Men...
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By naturalizing human equality, hobbes denaturalized rule by a few and paved the way for supporting rule by the people. Hobbes does reject the claim that god directly confers authority on a king. Hobbes posits that political authority naturally lies in the people, thus subverting the medieval justification for rule by a monarch. Authorise and give up [their] right of governing themselves to the leviathan. According to hobbs [t]he right of all soveraigns [is] derived originally from the consent of every one of those that are to bee governed.
