Hobbes’s Freedom Theory Evolution And Its Argument

Thomas Hobbes built the new natural law and the theory of the state through mechanical materialism, the birth that the sovereign is the people in order to achieve the highest "natural law"-self-preservation of peaceful purposes, formed by contract. Mechanical addition of individual constitute the national trunk, concentrated the sovereign power constitute the soul of the nation. Hobbes opposed the divine right, parliamentary republic faction, the common law doctrine, advocates sovereign control of absolute power.Analysis of domestic free theory of Hobbes’s, and related works of Hobbes and Republicans have proved to be further improved. Therefore, the author tries to Cambridge school leaders Skinner and Hobbes the most important several political science works to begin, to detailed Hobbes freedom theory, and on the three issue of the two sides’deadlocked debate:freedom and contingency, inevitability; freedom and slavery; freedom and law, analysis and discussion. Finally, the liberalism and republicanism is the question of Hobbes still exists dispute is expounded, in order to clear the Hobbes theory of freedom as we bring the enlightenment.