The Enlightenment

Thomas Hobbes was born___.

• 1588

• 1982

• 1648

• 1522

What question did Thomas Hobbes try to answer?

• Why do we have government?

• Is there government?

• Can I create a government?

• What is a government?

Thomas Hobbes was an ___

• military operator

• english scholar and philosopher

• Founding Father

• scientist and government leader

What is a state of nature?

• no one had a right to anything

• some people had a right to certain things

• everyone had the right to everything

• only one person had the right to everything

What did Hobbes believe?

• no one could produce anything because without government people would take them away

• before government everyone lived in a state of nature

• government was the reason that everyone lives in a state of nature

• without government you would be able to make whatever you wanted

Hobbes was the first in his era to discuss___

• what type of democracy is best

• the idea of social contract

• the idea state of nature

• the idea of a single sovereign

What is a contract?

• a document that a group signs

• a agreement to give some one certain things

• an agreement that both sides commit to in order to reach a goal

• a forced agreement to make plans and laws

What did citizens give up to create shared harmony?

• they gave up their property and way of life

• they worked in the government

• they gave up some rights for protection

• they gave up the right to work in higher class jobs

What specifically did citizens have to give up in exchange for their protection with the government?

• their way to vote, direct, and act

• the right to overthrow, vote, or question the government

• their way of paying, property, and land rights

• the right to overthrow, replace, or question the government

What type of government did Hobbes believe in?

• representative democracy

• direct democracy

• dictatorship

• sovereign