Abstract:

The new scientific thought and bloody English Civil War have a strong influence on Thomas Hobbes's political philosophy. He believed that mathematical knowledge is the only way to reach the truth and the most important cause of English Civil War was religion and religious class. Therefore, he constructed his political philosophy on a scientific and secular base. State model proposed by him was an absolute monarchy that religion and religious class were under control. But Hobbes’s thoughts on source of sovereignty, religion and religious class distinguish him from the other absolutist thinkers. Because he (differently from previous supporters of absolute monarcy) brought a secular defence to absolutism by applying religious reasons and planted seeds of secularism by stating that the source of monarch’s power is social contract, not God

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