We get a wrong impression of the man if we overlook, as is now commonly done, his personal piety and religious beliefs. The theory of personal salvation was an essential part of his philosophy and a major issue in the bitter conflicts of his time. To imagine that Hobbes was not ...
American government is a product of numerous Enlightenment thinkers, who thrived in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. These include the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes. While some of Hobbes' ideas were contrary to American governing principles, m
an intellectual bedfellow of Galileo and Descartes, "that incomparable man," in Mersenne's phrase. As Frangois Tricaud puts it in his urbane paper on Hobbes's thought, his ideas never came to a standstill; they wer...
Thomas Hobbes was a philosopher from England whose work and ideas have arguably made him the founder of modern political philosophy. His most famous work is the Leviathan, which he wrote in 1651. In it he describes his view of human nature and hence his view of government. Hobbes’ view of...
Thomas Hobbes Thomas Hobbes was born in London in 1588. After his receiving his education at Oxford he traveled to various European countries, learning and studying different forms of government. These studies led him to the question of why people allow themselves to be ruled. He also wondered....
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Things haven’t been the easiest, lately. I realized taking a break by going to Target to pick up prescriptions and bread wasn’t really cutting it. When caught up in the minutiae, there’s no space for wonderfully ill-conceived ideas. ...
in France -- by the nature of the situation, the conditions endured by the populace, and the ideas of his French counterparts -- experiences which would prove over time to contribute to the shaping of his own socio-political beliefs and actions throughout the remainder of his political career...
Claude Buffier and Thomas Reid. Two Common-SensePhilosophers. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas, No. 3. Kingston and Montreal: McGilI-Queen's University Press, 1982, Pp. vi + 227. $27.5 o. The most notable thing in this book is its attempt to show systematic and ...