_________________________________ wrote the Leviathan and lived through the English Civil War. He had a bad view of people and the state of nature ("war of every man against every man" and life was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short"). He thought that men formed governments to protect us from ourselves. His view of the social contract was that people give sovereignty and obedience to a ruler and the ruler maintains order with absolute power. He did not think that people have a right to rebel because that means that they would go back to chaos (state of nature). He believed that the monarch had sovereignty. He was important because he justified Absolute Monarchy without being religious (no mention of God/divine right).

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