Author Question: Hobbes's reactions to human nature were based on a. the belief that governments were a natural ... (Read 51 times)

KWilfred · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

Hobbes's reactions to human nature were based on

a. the belief that governments were a natural state of humanity.
b. the natural state of nature was stability and security.
c. the deep belief in divine right.
d. the support of an absolute monarchy based on reason.
e. the idea that deductive reasoning could not be applied to the study of human activities.

Question 2

John Harrison and Joseph Banks contributed to the use of practical science by the late eighteenth century in all of these ways EXCEPT

a. translating the scientific outlook into real-world applications.
b. making Greenwich, and thus Britain, the center of the world.
c. developing Kew Gardens as the world center of botany.
d. supporting Britain's increased power of Britain.
e. solving the problem of longitude.