... transformation into the enlightenment in Europe can be seen through the changing views of three philosophers: Jacques-Bénigne 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 ... impelled to return to England, where he was able to live peacefully and write his political manuscripts. In the Leviathan, Hobbes developed his political philosophy. He argued from a...

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