Political Science 2237E Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Outlast, Protestantism, Epicureanism
26 Sep 2018
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History context of hobbes don"t need to know. Elizabeth -> james i -> charles i. 1618-1648, 30 years war almost as bloody as wwi, ended by the treaty of. James i and charles i believe in the divine right of kings (that kings are put into their place by the gods, by divine appointment) So they think they are kings because god put them there. Have catholic sympathies in a protestant state. Thus king vs. parliament, resulting in civil war and charles gets his head chopped off. Then comes common wealth, supposed to be more democratic and was run by oliver. Then monarchy and charless ii who is roman catholic. Hobbes is easy to criticize because he is relatively clear. Hobbes had basically all of religious and political disputes, probably most messy life out of all of the modern writers. Many religious wars between catholic and protestants. Locke writes the two treatise of government in 1691.
