THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION
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that was best for pursuing individual rights.
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needed more education to be more competitive.
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that a strong government was necessary to protect people from themselves.
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only help from the Catholic Church could teach them to not be so selfish.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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 would mean more resolute and consistent exercise of political authority, Hobbes argued.
Detailed explanation-2: -Thomas Hobbes believes that humans have no moral compass unless there are predetermined rules to say what actions are good or bad. There is no morality in the state of nature. There is no contract without an absolute power to enforce it. Therefore, justice only comes into existence when the sovereign is established.
Detailed explanation-3: -Thomas Hobbes, the seventeenth century philosopher, believed that human beings always acted from self-interest. On one occasion Hobbes was seen giving money to a beggar. When asked why, he explained that he was trying to relieve his own discomfort at seeing the beggar in need.
Detailed explanation-4: -These three things-competition, distrust, and the desire for glory-throw humankind into a state of war, which is for Hobbes the natural condition of human life, the situation that exists whenever natural passions are unrestrained.