Hobbes
[hobz]
- Thomas,1588–1679, English philosopher and author.
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Contemporary Examples
The larger the pro-secession minority becomes, the more the majority opposed to secession will believe that Hobbes was right.
Hobbes lacked the data of archaeology and anthropology to inform his theories about the dangerous nature of pre-state existence.
The intellectual descendants of Hobbes and Rousseau tend to regard government as either a cure for or a cause of violence.
[Calvin and Hobbes creator] Bill Watterson is up in a cabin somewhere.
And there we are, hundreds upon hundreds of years after Hobbes told us so.
Historical Examples
Hobbes' definition, it may be urged, when applied to the case of the Will, is equivocal.
Mind and Motion and MonismGeorge John Romanes
But, if so, the Will is free in accordance with Hobbes' definition of freedom.
Mind and Motion and MonismGeorge John Romanes
But it was not the opinion of Hobbes that this made ethics impossible.
Evolution in Modern ThoughtErnst Haeckel
Charles allowed the dispute to go on, and Hobbes hit Fell rather hard.
OxfordAndrew Lang
What was the answer to this question given by Hobbes, Aristotle, Worms?
Introduction to the Science of SociologyRobert E. Park
Hobbes
- Thomas. 1588–1679, English political philosopher. His greatest work is the Leviathan (1651), which contains his defence of absolute sovereignty
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