Why Did Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan (1651) Enrage Both Royalists and Supporters

question 30

Multiple Choice

Why did Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan (1651) enrage both royalists and supporters of Parliament?

• A) Hobbes championed the concept of "divine right," but only for Catholic monarchs who received the blessing of the pope.
• B) Hobbes argued in favor of pluralism, a maximizing of the social classes and religious sects represented in the House of Commons.
• C) Hobbes favored a social contract as the basis for governmental legitimacy while championing absolutist rule (by either king or Parliament).
• D) Hobbes called for a confederation of England and France as a correction to the "unsatisfactory" settlement of the Thirty Years' War.

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