European rulers believed that as an absolute monarch, they were entitled to do whatever they wanted. The people however, disagreed believing that as they were the majority of the area ruled over, they should get a majority of the say on things that happened that related to them.
European absolute rulers viewed their proper roles as an absolute act of God. I grouped King James VI and Empress Catherine the Great of Russia (document 1 and 7) together and I’ll tell you why. King James VI argued that Parliament was nothing but a powerless crowd pleaser, so to speak, only to make the people feel like they had some part in the government. Empress Catherine the Great of Russia felt that an absolute ruler was necessary to preserve liberties and freedoms. People like this still exist. In the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Kim Jong Un is an absolute dictator. Kim Jong Un, like King James VI, has the people believe that they have at least a part in the government by calling it Democratic, and the People’s Republic. Kim Jong Un is also like Empress Catherine the Great of Russia, because he believes…show more content… These philosophers were people like Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Montesquieu. Both John Locke and Montesquieu saw the good in the people and that sometimes they had a tendency to corrupt things like liberties, justice, basic freedoms of man. Locke and Montesquieu felt however, that if the people united, they could change the world for the betterment of mankind, and not just mankind, but the womankind and the childrenkind. Thomas Hobbes stood against them, believing that man did not corrupt things, that they were already corrupt themselves. Hobbes believed that the world needed a strong dictator to keep everyone in check and to keep everyone acting in a civilized manner. I almost never until now have wondered what philosophers like those would say about world governments
