1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
Anettt [7]
2 years ago
12

According to Thomas Hobbes’s concept of the social contract , what do people exchange for protection by the government?

History
2 answers:
Fynjy0 [20]2 years ago
8 0

<u>Answer:</u>  Hobbes believed people exchange their <u>personal liberty</u>  for protection and security under a government.

<u>Explanation/detail:</u>

Thomas 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' <em>Leviathan </em>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:

  • <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 </em><em>worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.</em>
frosja888 [35]2 years ago
7 0

Answer:

Their liberties

Explanation:

You might be interested in
Alexander Hamilton wanted to increase government support forA. FarmingB. Large ArmiesC. ManufacturingD. State Currencies
mote1985 [20]
Answer: C. Manufacturing
According to Alexander Hamilton, the government’s support was needed to nurture a developing manufacturing sector because he believed that it would be the way to help the United States become independent of foreign nations for military and the key to economic success and driver of innovation.

7 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
All the power are held by one,single,central agency in a ____government.
kvasek [131]

Answer:

Unitary government.

Explanation:

All the power are held by one, single, central agency in a Unitary Government.

Hope this helps ;) ❤❤❤

4 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Jefferson reasoned that new government should be based on the principle of ______
Alexxx [7]

Answer:

B

Explanation:

Jefferson championed natural rights as the basis of all government. He believed that certain rights were God given and the government had no power to take them away.

5 0
2 years ago
Who was the first African American to be president of the United States of America?
ruslelena [56]
Barack obama would be the answer i hope this helps. have a great day
7 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Why did Puritans feel a lack of guilt for their harsh punishments for broken rules?
mash [69]

<u>Answer:</u>

<em>Puritans felt a lack of guilt for their harsh punishments for broken rules because of they followed "Old Testament teachings" (A).</em>

<em></em>

<u>Explanation:</u>

The punishment imposed by the puritans is found in the bible's old testament. This was before the coming of Jesus Christ. It is due to this that the puritans developed justification for their unworthy actions that they did in the past. The puritans had different religious groups who had created a theology of the common criticism. The puritans also wanted to purge all churches of the Roman Catholic’s ruling hierarchies of cardinals and bishops. They, therefore, conducted ceremonies that involved the clergy with repeated prayers and liturgy.

4 0
3 years ago
Other questions:
  • True or false The war had turned in favor of the Americans after the battle of Saratoga.
    12·1 answer
  • As a consequence of the Dawes Act, by 1900, American Indians
    11·1 answer
  • What happend in 1968?
    14·2 answers
  • . Both Jackie Robinson and Martin Luther King Jr. wrote letters that express their views on how to fight for equality for Africa
    9·1 answer
  • How did Otto von Bismarck promote German unification?
    12·1 answer
  • The ____ empowered the army to register voters in the South.
    7·1 answer
  • Explain the importance of Harappa to India.
    15·2 answers
  • A plate moves south at a rate of 2 cm/year. How many meters south from its original location will the plate be in 4,000 years? 8
    8·2 answers
  • List three ways trade changed the world between 600 and 1500 AD.
    7·1 answer
  • SOMEONE PLEASE HURRY!! <br><br> I need answers to WA-modern world history A-CR exam on edg
    5·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!