Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher born in 1588 in Westport, England and died in December 1679. His major work, The Leviathan is a book about his political worldview. It argues that man is a being who lacks any moral or ethical and that is a solitary and asocial that when faced with an equal him, falls into a state of anarchy, because it is in the nature of man animal survival, with a wolf trust anything
That is why Hobbes argues that the company was created through a social pact in which the man gave almost all their liberties to an absolute monarch, who will represent the state to impose a order through fear, that way a man can be sure that they are not going to kill you while you sleep, for example. The state is represented by Hobbes as a mythical creature called the Leviathan, a terrible monster ocean,
that protects society from another monster far worse than the behemoth, representing the war
precisely this service which gives the monarch to his people to avoid war at all costs is that King can not be tried under any circumstances and unfairly governed. In conclusion to Hobbes if the Absolute Monarch gets order in society, linking it through fear and avoid war, absolutism (the dictatorship at present) is fully justified. Another feature is that the king despite being a figure estate in the beginning of time is chosen by early man. Hobbes gives the exception of free citizens can take the King, when it does not guarantee peace, leading his people to war. Hobbes says in these words "The laws of nature are immutable and eternal, for injustice, ingratitude, arrogance, pride, iniquity, favoritism and other people can not be legitimate because it can not be that war to preserve the life and peace destroy it "
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