Thomas Hobbes Divine Right Of Kings

The explanation of the Divine Right of Kings aimed at teaching-related obedience (quality where all rules and orders are followed) by explaining why all social ranks were religiously and obliged to exactly follow their government. The religious emotionally intense feelings awakened by the Reformation and Counter-Reformation caused fighting against authority all over Europe. In England, both Roman Catholic and Puritan people (who try to come up with explanations for things) gave a good reason for not obeying rules, and even forcible resistance, to unholy governments that attacked the true religion. By the second half of the sixteenth century, England's upper classes were better educated and more politically conscious than at any time in the past.

The explanation of the Divine Right of Kings was directed at convincing this ability to read and write and the rich group that they should serve as royal people, not try and grab and take control of power for themselves. Of course, not everyone was convinced. But many were, including such smart and educated people (who try to come up with explanations for things) as Sir Robert Filmer and in his own individual way, Thomas Hobbes. They both made many of their simple arguments from the clarification of Divine Right. Although the explanation of the Divine Right of Kings was perfectly easy to understand and treated as such by its exponents, it is often now seen as weird and