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The view of “human nature” against which Butler preached was not exactly Mandeville’s, nor was it properly to be called 831 Hobbist, although Butler fairly treats it as having a philosophical basis in Hobbes’s psychology.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
He was over forty years of age, and had just turned, or was turning, a Roman Catholic in Paris, or perhaps rather a Roman Catholic Hobbist.
From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by David Masson
But the prejudice sprang from a true sense of the effect which the Hobbist philosophy must necessarily have whether on the current religion or on the current notions of political and social morality.
From History of the English People, Volume VI Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 by John Richard Green
If he is anything, he is a Hobbist.'
From Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell
But if an Hobbist be asked why, he will answer, because the public requires it, and the Leviathan will punish you if you do not.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
