Missed Part I and Part II? With the ushering in of William III in 1688 and the introduction of the Bill of Rights, there was a noticeable power shift away from the Crown amd towards the new joint-stock companies and merchants in England. While cemented with the new Bill, this shift had been happening slowlyContinue reading “Colston (Pt. III)- Cronyism & Capitalism”
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The Unspoken Leviathan
Published directly after the victory of Oliver Cromwell’s Parliamentarians in the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes’ treatise of man, Leviathan, was seen by many as justification for the past nine years of bloody battle. In it, Hobbes argues that to stop man descending into the selfish and wanton creature that is his natural state, aContinue reading “The Unspoken Leviathan”
The Clueless Conscience 