Answer to Question #185071 in Political Science for Rearabetswe Maleka

Question

Which of the following philosophers does St Tomas Aquinas share the following view with? 

Indicate the correct option. 

“Monarchies assume authority sanctioned by an ultimately supreme divine power, which 

legitimises the authority of the secular state over which they rule, compelling civil society to show 

obedience to the state”. 

1. Thomas Hobbes 

2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

3. St Augustine 

4. John Locke 

Answer 1

4. John Locke.