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Individualism is inherent in Hobbes’ absolutist ideology. Comment.

  • UPSC 2022
  • 15 marks
  • Western Political Thought

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Thomas Hobbes is often said to begin as an individualist and end as an absolutist, as if the two clashed; the statement claims instead that individualism lies inside the absolutism. In Leviathan (1651) the individual supplies the premises, the purpose and the limits of the sovereign. The claim is largely right, but this individualism is…

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  • Individualism in the Foundations
  • Why Individualism Requires Absolutism
  • Where the Claim Strains
  • Indian Illustration
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