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The Reasons Thomas Hobbes Believed That Sovereign Power Must Be Absolute

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power must be absolute. This is seen in several works, including the Leviathan. In Hobbes Leviathan stated he believed that the main and only task of any political community was  to name a leader, either as an individual or a group, who would have absolute power and that sovereignty is only momentary. (Biersteker and Weber, 1996). This concept is one  that results with each citizen owing an unquestioning obedience to the state (Biersteker and Weber, 1996). The reason for this he argues as essential to the existence of a  peaceful state and the ability of many to co-exist. If we look at his work as a whole, and specific areas then the way this fits in with his idea  of coexistence and human nature can be appreciated. The book the Leviathan sees the first five chapters all look to the nature of man as a sensory creature and  all experiences as sensory experiences. The experience is created by "so many overall motions of matter" and the thoughts are seen as conceptions of the mind and these are based  on the organs of sense, which are the main form of input. This means that man is subject to his emotions and as this being the basis of the way  than man will then behave as a result of the toughs Hobbes attention turns to human nature. Chapter 6 then looks at the voluntary motions that he states are  commonly referred to as passions. These are studied as to he argues to determine how there can be the development of a peaceful co-existence human nature needs to be understood.  However these statements are not directly built on the ideas he has already laid down regarding the nature of man as this would not be a logical or feasible deduction.