To argue that the chaos of civil war (or a state of nature) can only be averted by transferring our rights to all things over to an all-powerful sovereign whose duty it would be to make decisions for the good of all
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1651. Apparently a slightly altered Latin version appeared in 1668.
True. John Locke had more influence on the American Founders than did Thomas Hobbes. The Americans wanted nothing to do with Thomas Hobbes. The Americans did not want George III. The Americans did not seek Leviathan.
Hobbes, an Enlightenment Philosopher believed people needed to be governed by an absolute monarch as described in his writing called the Leviathan.
Thomas Hobbes was an important enlightenment thinker. In his masterpiece Leviathan he said that people by nature were selfish and ambitious. He believed that the type of government needed to control this was absolute monarchy. It was a king of social contract or agreement among members of society, people submitted to an authoritarian ruler to prevent disorder. Although he was a monarchist , his idea of a social contract was important for the developement of democracy.(The answer is in italics in the end.)
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protect the lives of everyone who agrees to the contract
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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes wrote the book Leviathan.
Leviathan was written by Thomas Hobbes between 1588 and 1679. It was published in 1651. The official title of the book is The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil.
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The purpose of the social contract in Hobbes' Leviathan is to create a sovereign authority that has the power to maintain peace and order by regulating individuals' behavior through the threat of punishment. This sovereign authority helps prevent the chaos and violence that would exist in a state of nature where individuals pursue their self-interest without regard for others.