With the passing of time, political views on the philosophy of government gradually changed. ... His political views were influenced by the war. Hobbes perceived that by bringing back the monarch, there would be an end to the civil war. ... Even though the power of the sovereign is accumulated from the people, the sovereign has absolute power. Locke argued that agreement to absolute political power is irrational. ...
When he was in Paris, he published De Cive, his first major study on politics, and wrote Leviathan, published in 1651. ... He preferred to use geometry and shapes as the basis of materialism so as to explain his social and political principles. ... He means, provided that the state is formed by all people under one monarch, it is as powerful as Leviathan and it cannot be destroyed by enemies and it brings peace to all people in the country. ... The main argument of Leviathan is that the sovereign must have great power, like Leviathan, to preserve the peace. ... Thomas Hobbes is against separ...
Thomas Hobbes and John Locke are two political philosophers; their theories were about the formation of the society and what the social contract means. ... Doubtless, both thinkers have different opinions on human nature and state of nature; the state of nature is where people were in before political government came into existence. ... One person or a group of people is given the power to protect the rest of the society. ... Conversely to Hobbes monarchial state, Locke contends that the government should be democratic. For this reason, the elected government can only rule by consent with t...
