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Chapter Fifteen: Thomas Hobbes
Brief Biography of Thomas Hobbes: Summary of Ideas, Portrait & Quotes
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Chapter Fifteen: Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes was a noted English political philosopher, most famous for his book Leviathan (1651).
Hobbes was born in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England. His father was a vicar. Hobbes was a good pupil, and around 1603 he was sent to Oxford and entered at Magdalen Hall. He became tutor to the son of William Cavendish, Baron of Hardwick. With his pupil, Hobbes toured Europe in 1610 and was exposed to European scientific and critical methods. He studied classic Greek and Latin authors and in 1628 translated Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War into English. Hobbes believed that this account of the Peloponnesian War showed that democratic government could not survive war or provide stability and was undesirable. Over the next ten years (from 1628 – 1638) as well as tutoring, he expanded his own knowledge of philosophy, awakening in him curiosity over key philosophic debates.
His most famous work, Leviathan was written during the English Civil war (which began 1642). Much of the book is occupied with demonstrating the necessity of a strong central authority to avoid the evil of discord and civil war. Any abuses of power by this authority are to be accepted as the price of peace. The State, as seen by Hobbes, might be regarded as a great artificial man or monster (Leviathan), composed of men, with a life that might be traced from its generation under pressure of human needs to its dissolution through civil strife proceeding from human passions. ... (see book for more)
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death: and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in war… every man, against every man. … Where there is no common power, there is no law, no law, no injustice. Force and fraud in war are the cardinal virtues.
Hell is Truth Seen Too Late. (Thomas Hobbes)
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