HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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John Locke
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Voltaire
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Thomas Hobbes
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hobbes likened the leviathan to government, a powerful state created to impose order. Hobbes began Leviathan by describing the “state of nature” where all individuals were naturally equal. Every person was free to do what he or she needed to do to survive.
Detailed explanation-2: -Soon after, an English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, wrote Leviathan. In it he made a defense of the absolute power of kings.
Detailed explanation-3: -Book 1: Of Man Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan, is a 1651 book by Thomas Hobbes. Written during the English Civil War, Hobbes’ book is a call for a strong, undivided government.
Detailed explanation-4: -Written during the English Civil War (1642–1651), it argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Hobbes wrote that civil war and the brute situation of a state of nature ("the war of all against all") could be avoided only by a strong, undivided government.