WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who argued that in our natural state humans live in anarchy and in order to ensure self-preservation and protection we submit to government authority?
A
John Locke
B
Thomas Hobbes
C
Baron de Montesquieu
D
Voltaire
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher who talked about the social contract theories in his work called Leviathan. In political philosophy, a social contract implies an agreement between the people to be governed and protected by a higher authority. According to him, the state of nature is characterized by anarchy.

Detailed explanation-2: -The state of nature in Rousseau The idea of the state of nature was also central to the political philosophy of Rousseau.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hobbes proposed that the natural basic state of humankind is one of anarchy, with the strong dominating the weak. Life for most people, he said, was ‘solitary, poore, nasty, brutish and short’. Therefore, our one natural right is of self-preservation.

Detailed explanation-4: -The pure state of nature, or “the natural condition of mankind", was described by the 17th century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan and his earlier work De Cive.

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