What Is Hobbes Commonwealth

In the beginning, God created the universe, the Earth, and the humans. God did not create a government for the people so the default state is the state of nature, a state of war, all versus all. To escape this, people join in a covenant to create a Commonwealth. This commonwealth is not given by divine right, but is made by the people. If the commonwealth cannot maintain peace, if some group has enough power to challenge it, if it does not accomplish what it was intended to, this Commonwealth ceases to exist. This is a myth known as the idea of order. God creates the man, and the man creates the law and government. Hobbes argues that God and the souls must be corporeal. From God’s omnipotence, Hobbes develops most of the things that God is capable of. Hobbes does not go in detail about the creation story but from Leviathan it can be inferred that God is the creator and that there is unformed matter. God created the world as a cause and effect. God is an active force in the universe, but he uses natural phenomena to do things in most cases; God acts indirectly. Just like a body dissolves without a soul, the Commonwealth dissolves without a sovereign. This leads to God being the soul of the world. Gods give the men the language and the men use it to create a Commonwealth using their reason …show more content…
The author stops and gives his opinion on the topic, what other people have said, if Hobbes is contradicting himself or is not expanding on his ideas. Also, the author try to complete unfinished thoughts left by Hobbes and gives the reasoning of why what Hobbes wrote leads to this. An important weakness of the article is that the author does not have an order. The author wrote 20 pages about Hobbes but he never separated the different topics or gave a defined structure of what he wanted to talk about. This makes the text tiresome to read even if the topic is