Thomas Hobbes: The Best English Philosopher

Thomas Hobbes is well known as one of the best English philosopher in history especially in the 17th century. He was best known for his books Leviathan in the 1651 and of course his brilliant political views on society. Thomas Hobbes was born in London in 1588 and he had a rich family. His father pushed education to him since he was four. Hobbes’s father had a quick-tempered and his limits were pushed when Hobbes failed to do something. The father was part of a small Wiltshire parish church. He was embarrasses after engaging in a huge brawl at his own church door. He then disappeared and abandoned three of his children to the care of his brother that he clearly trusted, a well-to-do Glover in Amesbury. At the age four years old, Hobbes …show more content…
He will meet up several l times with other scientists and they studied different form of government. Around this time outside of England, Hobbes had some questions about the people in England. He was very interested in why people allowed them to ruled or pushed around by the England government. Plus Hobbes wants to find this best form of government for England. This right here had really pushed Hobbes to find the answer and in 1651, Hobbes had wrote one of his famous work, that’s entitled Leviathan. In this masterpiece he argued that people were naturally wicked and they were not trusted to the government. For this his conclusion he believes that England should have an absolute monarchy. An absolute monarchy is a government that gave all power to a king or queen. Hobbes believes this was best for England and also best for the world. We have to think around this time frame a lot of countries had turn into government form and it was make sure the people did not have power or to keep one person to have power. There was shift of power around Europe to the point that each year one of the power five countries was gaining land. Going back Hobbes and he truly believed that humans were basically selfish creature who would do anything to better their position. That was his belief and yes Hobbes was ashamed of humans because thinks the human mind is weak. Also according to Hobbes human should not be allowed to …show more content…
Throughout the entire book Hobbes argues for the necessity and natural evolution of the social contract, a social construct, and human behavior. At this time Hobbes was in Paris and he knew England was in trouble because all know that civil war means you having a war in your own country against your people. Everything Hobbes was saying was becoming true and people begin to believe in his theory (Loose, 165-85). As Hobbes organized out his thoughts on the foundation principle of states and legitimate government, he did this in great confidence. The state somehow was created by humans, so Hobbes had first describes human nature. Like it said before people mind was brainwash and weak for many years because of the government system. Thomas Hobbes had stated this , “ in each of us can be found a representation of general humanity and that all acts are ultimately self-serving--that in a state of nature, humans would behave completely selfishly. He concludes that humanity 's natural condition is a state of perpetual war, fear and amorality, and that only government can hold a society together.” This right here when he made his statement loud a clear that the government system is no good and us human need an authority to keep us in check or safe. This mainly towards England, but he wanted the world to know that there was a problem in