Thomas More

Thomas More

Thomas More was a charming intelligent scholar, attorney, and legislator whose impact was an advancement of alteration in England. More was a nose confidant of King Henry Vill. He is regarded as a saint of Roman Catholics and Anglicans. Thomas got the best education a person could access in the late 1400s and early 1500s. He was also a family man. Thomas joined politics when he became a member of parliament. King Henry VII noticed the young man and brought him to his circle. More was also elected to the position of House speaker.

Since Thomas was popular, differences between him and the King were bound to occur. The significant misunderstanding over supremacy between Vatican and the King soared. Thomas believed that the pope was superior to the King. More declined to sign a conformity by the English clergyman beseeching the pope to nullify King Henry’s marriage with Catherine. He also had a quarrel with Henry over divergence rules. The King was not happy and withdrew a great number of churchmen who supported the pope from important posts.

Thomas tried to resign when he was pressurized to take a vow to declare the King as the supreme leader of the Church of England. Further the law outlawed any affirmation of the papacy. More did not take the vow, and because of their long standing relationship with the King he was not in any immediate danger neither was he sacked, but the King granted him his request when he avenged medical reasons. Thomas claimed that the King was not superior to the pope. He said that no earthly being could be the head of spirituality. He was beheaded on July  6 1535.

St Thomas Aquinas was a monk who penned expansively on non-religious and religious topics which included law and politics. For this study of importance are his articles on Law. According to Thomas Aquinas, Natural law which is also known as a higher law says that there is an origin of Law that exceeds human creation. The decree of natural law have their origin in nature itself. Thomas More by rejecting to take the vows showed that he had respect for a higher power rather than King Henry. More believed that there was a law that was self-sufficient of human natures.

According to Aquinas, human laws change constantly and rule over a specific category of citizens in a particular place thus Thomas More rejected some of the Kings laws that expected him to denounce the pope as being superior to the King. Being a good Law, More decided to follow the natural law more than the human law. Which objectively does not necessarily claim to be a noble law. Aquinas trust that’s bona fide laws demand a noble duty of obedience to those of whom it is bestowed.

Laws formulated by humans are either fair or unfair. If they are fair they are naturally conclusive. Laws are said to be fair if they are enacted for the good of man and when it does nor surpass the capacity of the law giver. The laws impose loss and place comparative responsibility. Unjust laws on the other hand can negate human gain by being rejected if they are numbersome or the person writing the laws go beyond the mandate that binds them. Also disobedience according to Saint Thomas Aquinas may be experienced if the laws are applied differently on people. Despot laws propagating idolatry or something contrary to natural law is viewed as unjust. St Aquinas says that there is no human who is so clever reckon each case. Thus Thomas More obeyed Kin Henry but differed in matters that touched on the pope.

Thomas Hobbes wanted to ascertain a logical theory for the building of a courteous nation free from extermination. Since he lived through the era of political break down leading to the English civil conflict, he concluded that the weight of even the most dictatorial regimes are limited. Any regime, according to Hobbes is better than a country sinking into civil anarchy. Extended peace requires the state to forego all plans that will sabotage stability. Hobbes challenges us to contemplate a situation where a nation has no government.

Hobbes continues to contend that a country without a master will be lawless and safety of all its people is not a guarantee He argues that that it will be impossible to run a business in such a state. Many people term Hobbes school of thought as bleak because he builds it from a personal persuasive, experimental, and regularizing beliefs. He presumes that people are the same in their mental and physical characteristics.

Further, he argues that the state of nature is a tragic conflict in that none of our essential conclusions are assuredly attainable. Peoples nature brings support that helps in fighting this gloomy circumstances. He asserts that as impartial beings, we can see that a conflict of all against all is harmful, and so stability is important. People will acknowledge as critical the mandate to look for peace, and to do essential things to preserve it.

Hobbes names these imperatives as Laws of Nature which clearly states that we should not treat other people in a manner which we would not want them to treat us. These laws prohibit evils such as injustice, savagery, and disloyalty. Though pundits do not concur on whether to consider these rules as minor tenets of austerity or noble assertiveness, they accept that Hobbes gets the concept of respecting political power that Thomas More did not fulfill.

On political obligation, Hobbe’s maintains that external forces carried out in respect to laws with no internal approval. These are the plans of the crown and not of the citizens, which is in that situation but as an instrument without any movement of his. It is fundamental to Hobbe’s program of convincing his Christian followers to respect their crown that he can bolster them that God will not judge them for their wrongful deeds done at the behest of the crown. The reason behind it is that citizens cannot anticipate to respect if doing so will threaten their constant forecast.

Further, Hobbe’s says that a subject cannot be held responsible for this wrongdoing if he follows the crown’s rule. He believes that people can respect orders to carry out actions they trust to be wrong without fright of holy retribution. His school of thought recognizes that the government holds total power, but gives subjects the freedom to disregard some of the laws. Thomas More disregards King Henry’s directive of declaring himself superior to the church. If peoples’ lives are in danger, Hobbe’s advises people to disobey rules that put them in difficult situations. He also tell people not to let the state to take their dignity and that of their family members.

In conclusion Thomas More’s position in England and European past is cemented by his stand against despotism and that his moral standing can win against any evil deed. More shaped future approaches by inspiring legislators to fight for liberty of speech and conservation of the English Common Law. He encourages people not to compromise their beliefs at the expense of making those in authority happy. More does not disobey the King but differs with him on issues related to spirituality.