USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Hobbes deduces that people are naturally selfish and wicked and therefore cannot be trusted. Therefore the primitive or “natural” state of humanity was violent and brutal. Therefore a strong, authoritarian government (ie. monarchy) is a necessary good to control them and keep the peace.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hobbes believed that a government headed by a king was the best form that the sovereign could take. Placing all power in the hands of a king, Hobbes argued, would mean more sure and consistent exercise of political authority.

Detailed explanation-3: -The English thinker Thomas Hobbes wrote Leviathan in 1651. In this book, he argued that people were naturally violent and selfish. Hobbes believed that natural law meant people needed strong rulers to tell them what to do.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hobbes believed that kings were justified in assuming absolute power because only they could maintain order in a society. Absolutism is a political system where a monarch has absolute power over his or her people. This power is unlimited.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hobbes concluded that humans were stimulated by “appetite” or movement toward an object, similar to pleasure and “aversion” or movement away from an object, similar to pain. Hobbes’s doctrine that human behavior is directed by self-interest is now known as psychological hedonism.