... Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau while all being similar in many ways, also differentiate amongst themselves as well. This statement proves to be true when looking at several of there basic values, and principles. One of these basic principles is the belief that all the powers of government should be focused solely on ... first show how each of these political theorists embrace this idea personally. Thomas Hobbes in his book The Leviathan talks about the great Leviathan which is synonymous with that of a common-wealth or state. He believes this Leviathan to be but an "artific...

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... were not ready to go away from traditional monarchical regime. Moreover the progress helped to spread Machiavelly's work and affected on the thinkers and people. Hence Hobbes's a similar views on the regime, which should be in the society, ideas of state, which were so rarely discussed by the classics. ... to them. Galileo, for instance, said that the nature "scritta in lingua matematica", which means that the nature can be explained by math. Hobbes was also very influenced by the progress, new openness, scientific methods, inventions, and was talking about the necessity of the science, w...

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