The Difference Between Hobbs and Weber

Hobbs and weber both thought that if you think scientifically about politics, you realize that politics cannot be left to the scientists. But there were big differences between weber and hobbs. Germany in 19 nineten was really nothing like england in 16 forty nine, 16 50, 16 51. One difference is that that incipient civil war that never quite broke out in germany in early 19 19 was not a two way contest. So hobbs was trying to warn against a politics that becomes a choice in either ar king or parliament, this religion or that religion. He was trying to find an understanding of politics that transcended the bindary choice, or locked it in