HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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John Locke
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Thomas Hobbes
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Montesquieu
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Voltaire
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Detailed explanation-1: -LEVIATHAN, or the matter, forme and power of a commonwealth ecclesiasticall and civil. By Thomas Hobbes, of Malmesbury. Anno Christi 1651.
Detailed explanation-2: -Published in 1651, in the midst of England’s Civil War, Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan helped shape western political thinking. Hobbes proposed that the natural state of humankind is one of anarchy, with the strong dominating the weak.
Detailed explanation-3: -The work concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory. Written during the English Civil War (1642–1651), it argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign.
Detailed explanation-4: -Leviathan | Book by Thomas Hobbes | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster UK.
Detailed explanation-5: -Thomas Hobbes, (born April 5, 1588, Westport, Wiltshire, England-died December 4, 1679, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire), English philosopher, scientist, and historian, best known for his political philosophy, especially as articulated in his masterpiece Leviathan (1651).