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Hobbes, Thomas
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Hobbes, Thomas (1588–1679). Philosopher. Hobbes is without doubt the greatest political philosopher to have written in the English language. After graduating from Oxford, he devoted his very long life to private tutoring and study. In 1651 he published in English
Leviathan masterpiece, in which he set out systematically an ingenious social contractarian case for an authoritarian government. Hobbes argued that the state of nature (i.e. the pre‐political condition) was a condition of ‘war of all against all’, since humans are by nature moved by competitiveness, fear, and pride to coerce others. They would contract together to establish an absolute ruler, since that was the only way in which their security could be guaranteed.
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Thomas Hobbes: skeptical moralist.
Magazine article from: American Political Science Review; 6/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...theorists, the claim that Thomas Hobbes was a skeptic in matters...Genuine moral obligation, Thomas Nagel has argued, "plays...Leviathan at all"; what Hobbes called moral obligation...life for human beings). THOMAS HOBBES: MORAL SKEPTIC? Let...
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PASIÓN Y RAZÓN EN THOMAS HOBBES/Passion and Reason in Thomas Hobbes
Magazine article from: Alpha; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...relacin entre pasin y razn en Thomas Hobbes, pensador ingls considerado racionalista...between passion and reason in Thomas Hobbes. The English thinker is considered...imagination, understanding. Thomas Hobbes es considerado un pensador racionalista...
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The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes, 2 vols.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 6/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; Hobbes, Thomas. Edited by Noel Malcolm. The Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. 2...important tool for understanding the life and works of Thomas Hobbes
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Collins, Jeffrey R.: The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes.(Book review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; Collins, Jeffrey R. The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes New York: Oxford University Press 336 pp., $99...9 Publication Date: December 2005 The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes, by Jeffrey R. Collins, an assistant professor of...
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The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Jeffrey R. Collins. The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes. Oxford: Oxford University Press...9. Perhaps many still think of Hobbes as the foremost apologist of Stuart...regime was being dismantled, some of Hobbes's contemporaries considered his...
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The Two Gods of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes on Religion and Politics.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 4/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...with John Pocock's "Time, History and Eschatology in the Thought of Thomas Hobbes" (1970), has taken Hobbes's theology seriously. Most of it has presumed that Hobbes's' views on religion are to be read literally, not (as previous generations...
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The Disciplined Citizen: Thomas Hobbes, Neostoicism and the Critique of Classical Citizenship.
Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History; 12/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Hobbes and Citizenship In recent years the history...modern passive accounts of citizenship is Thomas Hobbes: while the "neo-Roman" theory of citizenship...In these respects Skinner's account of Hobbes' role in civic theory is a conventional...
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Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War: An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes. Oxford: Clarendon Press...polemical pamphlet made by Thomas Hobbes during the late 1620s. Malcolm...our understanding of both Hobbes and early modern reason of state. THOMAS TURLEY Santa Clara University
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Thomas Hobbes and the Political Philosophy of Glory.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: Perspectives on Political Science; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Slomp, Gabriella Thomas Hobbes and the Political Philosophy of...cannot resist suggesting that Thomas Hobbes and the Political Philosophy of...Ironically, the main effect of Thomas Hobbes and the Political Philosophy of...
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Leviathan harpooned: aware of the dangers posed by judges and the law, Thomas Hobbes offered a solution.
Magazine article from: National Review; 6/30/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...the great political philosopher Thomas Hobbes has had one long stretch of bad...In his essay on John Bramhall, Hobbes's most persistent contemporary...Eliot, was snidely dismissive: "Thomas Hobbes was one of those extraordinary...
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Thomas Hobbes
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Thomas Hobbes The English philosopher and political theorist Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was one of the central...impending invasion of the Spanish Armada, Thomas Hobbes later reported that "my mother gave...
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Hobbes, Thomas
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
Thomas Hobbes Born: April 5, 1588Westport, EnglandDied...English philosopher and political theorist Thomas Hobbes was one of the central figures of political...Armada (a fleet of Spanish warships), Thomas Hobbes later reported that "my mother gave...
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Hobbes, Thomas (1588–1679)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
HOBBES, THOMAS (1588 – 1679) HOBBES, THOMAS (1588 – 1679), English philosopher. Thomas Hobbes, perhaps the greatest of the English philosophers, was...
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Thomas Tenison
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Thomas Tenison , 1636-1715, English churchman, archbishop of Canterbury...1701) of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and wrote books on Thomas Hobbes (1670) and Francis Bacon (1679).
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Thomas Erastus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Thomas Erastus 1524-83, Swiss Protestant theologian, a physician, whose original...view. Erastianism achieved its definitive expression in the Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes . Bibliography: See E. Evans, Erastianism (1931).
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