A world without rules has always been any kid’s wish. Having the chance to spend a night without adult supervision would mean freedom and the opportunity to eat and watch anything without getting punished. These wishes don’t outgrow the kid, as many people growing up would still want to live in an ideal world where they can do anything they please without having to sacrifice anything in return. It might sound like a utopia or a life of happiness, but people who would want such a life tend to forget that if they are free to do anything, then everyone else is free to do anything as well, even those they don’t see eye to eye with, causing fights on the long run. Such egocentric perspective makes citizens value their freedom and satisfaction over
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Initially, during centuries prior his birth, people were not allowed to question the ruler’s motives. Given that the Bible was at the basis of everything, it was considered sinful to disobey the ruling family and citizens were told that they will be going to Hell in case of doubt. Known as the Divine Right of Kings theory, this way of thinking stems from the fact that God chooses all Kings, meaning if anyone disobeys the King, they disobey God. Fear of death and sinning is what made the citizens genuinely obey. However, with time and especially during the Enlightenment period, intellectuals were starting to doubt this theory, believing that a King’s power would be nonexistent without people to rule over. In such case, the mass population should be satisfied with each set of rule that stem from the King, and if they are not satisfied, they have the right to revolt against the King denying the religious connotation behind the theory. Such way of thinking was at the basis of the Social Contract Theory of government which was further developed in Leviathan. According to Rogers and Schuhmann, “the Biblical name Leviathan which is conspicuously displayed on the title page of the book and also referred to in the text from Job 41:24 quoted on top of the frontispiece [....] it was probably only in the course of detailed Biblical studies undertaken in an attempt to determine the limits of ecclesiastical power […] that Hobbes conceived the idea of adopting the name of this Biblical monster for the book’s main title” (2005,
Initially, during centuries prior his birth, people were not allowed to question the ruler’s motives. Given that the Bible was at the basis of everything, it was considered sinful to disobey the ruling family and citizens were told that they will be going to Hell in case of doubt. Known as the Divine Right of Kings theory, this way of thinking stems from the fact that God chooses all Kings, meaning if anyone disobeys the King, they disobey God. Fear of death and sinning is what made the citizens genuinely obey. However, with time and especially during the Enlightenment period, intellectuals were starting to doubt this theory, believing that a King’s power would be nonexistent without people to rule over. In such case, the mass population should be satisfied with each set of rule that stem from the King, and if they are not satisfied, they have the right to revolt against the King denying the religious connotation behind the theory. Such way of thinking was at the basis of the Social Contract Theory of government which was further developed in Leviathan. According to Rogers and Schuhmann, “the Biblical name Leviathan which is conspicuously displayed on the title page of the book and also referred to in the text from Job 41:24 quoted on top of the frontispiece [....] it was probably only in the course of detailed Biblical studies undertaken in an attempt to determine the limits of ecclesiastical power […] that Hobbes conceived the idea of adopting the name of this Biblical monster for the book’s main title” (2005,