Behemoth – Revolution Coming Back

Answer 1

 De Corpore raised controversies as well as Hobbes’s earlier political texts, but mostly these debates were part of a new scientific discourse that took shape in England.

 Behemoth did not include any new political theory. Yet, Behemoth is not only a “history”.

 The major problem for Hobbes is that no one seems to have learned anything from the Civil Wars.

 These examples show how Hobbes used the concept of revolution, taken straight from the astronomical discourse described in De Corpore, for his analysis of the English Civil Wars.

 The political power seemed to return to the original place where it had all begun.

 First, he calls the whole period of the English civil wars a revolution. Second, he characterizes the movement of sovereign power as a circular motion.