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  1. Aug 8, 2023 · Thomas Hobbes, an English philosopher in the 17th century, was best known for his book 'Leviathan' (1651) and his political views on society. Updated: Aug 8, 2023 Photo: DE...

  2. Mar 11, 2009 · Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), whose current reputation rests largely on his political philosophy, was a thinker with wide-ranging interests. In philosophy, he defended a range of materialist, nominalist, and empiricist views against Cartesian and Aristotelian alternatives.

  3. Political philosophy, history, ethics, geometry. Notable ideas. Social contract. State of nature. Bellum omnium contra omnes. Signature. Thomas Hobbes ( / hɒbz / HOBZ; 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social ...

  4. 4 days ago · Hobbes turns Aristotle’s claim on its head: human beings, he insists, are by nature unsuited to political life. They naturally denigrate and compete with each other, are very easily swayed by the rhetoric of ambitious persons, and think much more highly of themselves than of other people.

  5. Hobbess political views exerted a discernible influence on his work in other fields, including historiography and legal theory. His political philosophy is chiefly concerned with the way in which government must be organized in order to avoid civil war.

  6. Nov 27, 2023 · 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...

  7. Jun 25, 2013 · Thomas Hobbes (b. 1579–d. 1688) was an English philosopher best known for his work in political and moral philosophy, though he also wrote on metaphysics, epistemology, mathematics, history, religion, and much else.

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