20 Jun 2021 8:52 pm
Thomas Hobbes was a liberal philosopher overall...but he DID reject the concept of the innate goodness of man. That is the one liberal axiom he rejected.SJConspirator » 20 Jun 2021, 8:46 pm » wrote: ↑ If there is no government, local warlords arise and create neighborhood “gangs” keeping caches of weapons and protecting their strongholds. Endemic warfare is continual in that situation.
see: Nigeria, Congo or Somalia.
Democracy does not just spontaneously break out in the absence of organized government lol
Therefore his philosophy led him to endorse monarchism. Not democracy.