Thomas Hobbes - Wikipedia Thomas Hobbes ( h ɒ b z HOBZ; 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher, best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory [4]
Thomas Hobbes | Biography, Philosophy, Beliefs, Leviathan, Legacy . . . Thomas Hobbes (born April 5, 1588, Westport, Wiltshire, England—died December 4, 1679, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire) was an English philosopher, scientist, and historian, best known for his political philosophy, especially as articulated in his masterpiece Leviathan (1651)
Hobbes’s Moral and Political Philosophy - Stanford Encyclopedia of . . . The 17 th Century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes is now widely regarded as one of a handful of truly great political philosophers, whose masterwork Leviathan rivals in significance the political writings of Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Rawls
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
Thomas Hobbes - World History Encyclopedia 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
The Philosophy of Hobbes - ponderingphilosopher. com Philosopher Thomas Hobbes was an opponent of democracy, who lived through the beheading of Charles I His arguments became most controversial during social revolutions, with modern Hobbes proponents citing tales of failed revolutions to support their arguments
Hobbes View of Morality | Philosophy Since there is only one condition over which we have any realistic control, Hobbes concludes that morality is a matter of denying our Limited Altruism (or, equivalently, Limited Egoism) natures so as to avoid the State of Nature
Hobbess moral and political philosophy - Wikipedia In developing his moral and political philosophy, Hobbes assumes the methodological approach of deductive reasoning, combining mathematics and the mechanics of science to formulate his ideas on human nature [1]