WI: Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes was one of the prominent advocate of absolute monarchy during Enlightenment, where many said this support is due to his experience with the Bristish Civil war.

What if, due to undefined reasons, he somehow witness less bloodshed in the battles or felt less shocked by human brutality. How would this affect his work and ideologies?
 
Hobbes did not necessarilly support absolute monarchy without caveots. I think that hobbes seems to support any absolute system. That is a system where there is only one source of law and only one source of judgement. He also talked about an absolute republic and an absolute oligarchy as possible alternatives. What he was trying to get at was a political body that was united by assent to one political power either king or republic or council.
 
AS was pointerd out, hobbes didn't have much truck with divine right. He was a rationalist and proceeded from an analysis of what he perceived as the grand narrative of his time - keeping barbarism in check by law. Without the prevalent experience of fear (probably more vicarious than personal), he might simply never get into political philosophy. If he still does, he could well prefigure Benthamism. He was not a terribly nice person, it seems.
 
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