An important message for Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, et al., from Thomas Hobbes[1588-1679] in his epic work, Leviathan : “They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.” Many readers of philosophy and history are perhaps more familiar with Hobbes’ description of life as a constant state of war among men, that life is: “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” Indeed, the quality of life during Thomas Hobbes’ lifetime was marred by civil war, regicide, economic and religious strife. Under such circumstances one’s faith in fellow man is sorely tested if not discarded. Thomas Hobbes saw the dark side of humanity as the predominant one. He sought the construct of a Leviathan, a benevolent Christian Sovereign that would govern a safe society, a Christian Commonwealth. The arguments of Hobbes, many claim, led to the rebirth of “Enlightenment” thought about the Rights of Man, Natural Law, and the nature of government.

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