Its concluding section, "Of the Kingdome of Darknesse," does not speak highly of the Catholic Church and makes clear that the Pope and Church should in fact be subordinated to the State. The first part attempts to deduce how men's ideas are derived f
Its concluding section, "Of the Kingdome of Darknesse," does not speak highly of the Catholic Church and makes clear that the Pope and Church should in fact be subordinated to the State. The first part attempts to deduce how men's ideas are derived from sense impressions, and its most famous section proclaims that there is no natural sanction for one man's assuming authority over another, arguing that a state of permanent war ensues. FTP, name this work in which life in the state of nature is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short," the most famous work of Thomas Hobbes.
Its concluding section, "Of the Kingdome of Darknesse," does not speak highly of the Catholic Church and makes clear that the Pope and Church should in fact be subordinated to the State.
{Leviathan}