Hobbes, Thomas

1. A seventeenth-century British political philosopher; the author of Leviathan. According to Hobbes, human life in a “state of nature” is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” He argued that government must be strong, even repressive, to keep people from lapsing into a savage existence.

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Hobbes, Thomas, 25, 29, 30, 61, 106, 140, 156, 223, 512, 642.

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Hobbes, Thomas, an English philosopher, psychologist, and moralist, born at Malmesbury; was educated at Oxford; connected all his days with the Cavendish family, with members of which he travelled on the Continent, and was on friendly terms with Charles II.,

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HOBBES, Thomas, Bathurst's verses to him, iv.

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