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THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774

THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION

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h century English thinker who believed in powerful governments (absolutism); wrote Leviathan and argued that people were naturally cruel, greedy, & selfish and could only survive under strict government control, believed in the use of a social contract;
A
Thomas Hobbes
B
John Locke
C
Montesquieu
D
Voltaire
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is best known for his political thought, and deservedly so.

Detailed explanation-2: -logical conclusion by Hobbes in Leviathan (1651), in which the sovereign was identified with might rather than law. Law is what sovereigns command, and it cannot limit their power: sovereign power is absolute.

Detailed explanation-3: -Shortly after Charles was executed, an English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), wrote Leviathan, a defense of the absolute power of kings.

Detailed explanation-4: -LEVIATHAN, or the matter, forme and power of a commonwealth ecclesiasticall and civil. By Thomas Hobbes, of Malmesbury.

Detailed explanation-5: -Thomas Hobbes outlined his ideas in a work titled Leviathan. In it, he argued that people were naturally cruel, greedy, and selfish.

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