Thomas Hobbes was an early modern philosopher who put forth the idea of a "social contract" -- that governments are formed by the will of the people. This was different than previous views which held that governments (kings) got their authority directly from God.
Hobbes published a famous work called<em> Leviathan</em> in 1651. The title "Leviathan" comes from a biblical word for a great and mighty beast. Hobbes believed government is formed by people for the sake of their personal security and stability in society. In Hobbes' view, once the people put a king (or other leader in power), then that leader needs to have supreme power (like a great and mighty beast). Hobbes' view of the natural state of human beings without a government held that people are too divided and too volatile as individuals -- everyone looking out for his own interests. So for security and stability, authority and the power of the law needs to be in the hands of a powerful ruler like a king or queen. And so people willingly enter a social contract in which they live under a government that provides stability and security for society.
Probably the most famous set of lines from Hobbes' Leviathan book describes what he saw as the natural state of human affairs without government -- one in which every individual had freedom, but that meant it was a situation of "war of all against all," or we might say, every man for himself. Hobbes wrote:
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<em>In such condition, there is no place for industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving, and removing, such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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Two problems that led to the dissolution of the League of Nations were:
- Its inaction when some of its members engaged in aggressive actions.
- The fact that some powerful nations were not members.
<h3>Why was the League of Nations dissolved?</h3>
The League of nations failed to properly act when Italy and Japan attacked Ethiopia and China even though all four countries were in the League. This led to a loss of confidence.
Two powerful nations were also not members which were Russia and the U.S. which made it hard to enforce policies.
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It is said that all the philosophy and knowledge used during the Renaissance era was held onto the Scoentific Revolution.
Alexander had previously prepared takeover by defeating the Persian army at Issus and captured the Mediterranean eliminating the threat of a Persian naval invasion. As well as keeping Persian land reinforcements from coming from the West, which was key in focusing on other points.
NATURALIZATION : (a) to confer upon (an alien) the rights and privileges of a
<span>citizen. (b) to introduce organisms into a region and cause them to flourish (grow, bloom.) (c) to introduce or adopt foreign practices to a country, or gor general use.</span>
