Thomas Hobbes (/ hɒbz / HOBZ; 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) [a] was an English philosopher and political theorist, best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. [4] He is considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. [5][6] In his early life, overshadowed by his father's departure following a fight ...
Thomas Hobbes, English political philosopher best known for his masterpiece Leviathan (1651) and his contribution to social contract theory. He viewed government primarily as a device for ensuring collective security and justified wide-ranging government powers on the basis of the self-interested consent of citizens.
Hobbes published a large number of works on a range of subjects, including philosophy, politics, law, history, natural science, mathematics, and geometry. He also translated a number of Greek texts, including Homer’s The Illiad and The Odessey. His most famous work is Leviathan (1651). In it, Hobbes argues that a safe and stable society can only be created by citizens freely submitting some ...
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was an English philosopher who famously summarised his pessimistic view of human nature in his greatest work, Leviathan, published in 1651. Hobbes believed that the life of...
IGN: Tales of Monkey Island -- Chapter 3: Lair of the Leviathan
Because Hobbes held that “the true doctrine of the Lawes of Nature is the true Morall philosophie”, differences in interpretation of Hobbes’s moral philosophy can be traced to differing understandings of the status and operation of Hobbes’s “laws of nature”, which laws will be discussed below.
Thomas Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is best known for his political thought, and deservedly so. His vision of the world is strikingly original and still relevant to contemporary politics. His main concern is the problem of social and political order: how human beings can live together in peace and avoid the danger and fear of civil ...