History & The Arts
Why are people superstitious?
...English philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Both were writing in superstitious times wracked by upheaval and conflict. Both argued that religion should fall under political control, as it did in the Church of England. [Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes] Hobbes, Leviathan frontispiece (1651). Hobbes argued that we should surrender all power to the monarch to control the unruly people –...