- Compare and contrast the English atheist Hobbes' arguments with those proposed by his French 17th. c. contemporary, the Catholic bishop and controversialist Jacques Bossuet, in his argument for royal monarchy.
- Where do the two arguments converge?
- How do they diverge?
- Do they arrive at roughly the same conclusion? Or not?
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Hobbes' Argument for an Absolute Sovereign; cf. Bossuet
T. R. Quigley at the New School has prepared this close analysis of Hobbes' argument for an absolute sovereign in Leviathan 1.14-15. Read 14-15 in conjunction with Quigley's breakdown.
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