Similarities Between Machiavelli And Hobbes

The significance of temporality is explained in two very different ways by Niccolo Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes. The limitations of states and the fundamental driver of what is essentially the human decay that amounts to the dissolution of the state. Both are aware that political systems decay over time. They attempt to dissolve the problem of preserving the political system over time. Their views on history shape their solutions, however both think very differently. Each is aware that human beings are fundamentally flawed, which in turn means that any product of them, such as political society is also flawed. Machiavelli believes that the decay is natural and political society should be stretched out for as long as possible, while Hobbes thinks that no, this decay is not natural and this way of thinking is what leads to the decay, his solution is to create a formula to escape the problem entirely. Machiavelli and Hobbes offer critiques on the causes of the fall of states, and both attributed it, contradictorily, to the flaws humans within the political society. In the background of both Machiavelli’s and Hobbes arguments lies the notion that states formed were flawed because of the root of their creations stemming from the failed institution of Christianity. …show more content…
Envy he believed was introduced by the passivity of Christianity. Passivity leads you as an individual to just sit and take whatever life throws at you. All the while society keeps on continuing, the powerful remain in power and the poor remain impoverished. He believed that in order to address and redress society’s driving decadence or envy, would be solved by introducing pride. Pride would replicate and produce individuals like those in ancient Roman societies. This was to be accomplished by establishing the natural occurring life cycle. Machiavelli, in essence, want to reset the moral clock of political