Thomas Hobbes by Brent Monroe Pergram The reason Thomas Hobbes wants the transfer of power to a sovereign by social contract is because he does not trust the individual to treat people equally in nature, because people are by nature self interested men out for themselves at the expense of others. Men have to form a social contract in order to get peace and security, and contract together to appoint an all-powerful sovereign, who would be in a position to compel them to do these things. Therefore based on Hobbes\\'s view of human nature, it would be sensible to appoint such a sovereign. Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan, pushes the belief that government is based on the consent of people, and not on the devine right of monarchs. That is the modern notion of government, which is not like medieval thought believing that the monarch ruled ....

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