... eacute;nigne Bossuet, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke. Bossuet's old-school views of Devine rights and absolutions, to Hobbes's progression in his views that man is by nature a selfishly individualistic animal at constant war with all other men, and finally Locke's views that the middle class ... and its right to freedom of conscience and right to property, in his faith in science, and in his confidence in the goodness of humanity. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet was a bishop who was the most eloquent and influential spokesman for the rights ... , and short."" Fear of violent death is the princip...

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