BF190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sacristy, Consequentialism, Body Politic
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This is what hobbes was trying to persuade everyone to believe this. He believes he uncovered human nature: this is what he found. If there were no gov"t or powerful ruler there would be a war of all against all and life would be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. This is why we should consent to be ruled by an absolute sovereign. The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion. hobbes leviathan. Hobbes wrote leviathan in the context of the civil war in. Not only would this have made him detest violent unrest, but he happened to be friends with royalists. However, hobbes" political leanings were decided before the civil war. He rejects the theory of the divine right of kings. The sovereign is democratically chosen by rational subjects*
