Thomas Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes was a 17th-century English philosopher best known for his political theory of social contract and his seminal work "Leviathan," which argued for strong centralized authority to prevent societal chaos.
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| Hobbes | 2 |
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author
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early modern philosopher ⓘ human ⓘ philosopher ⓘ political philosopher ⓘ |
| associatedEvent | English Civil War ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1588-04-05 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Westport, Wiltshire, England ⓘ |
| citizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1679-12-04 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Derbyshire
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Derbyshire, England
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| education |
St Edmund Hall, Oxford
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Magdalen Hall, Oxford
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| employer | Cavendish family ⓘ |
| era |
17th-century philosophy
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Age of Enlightenment precursor ⓘ |
| familyName |
Thomas Hobbes
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Hobbes
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| field |
legal philosophy
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moral philosophy ⓘ natural philosophy ⓘ political theory ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
| influenced |
Baruch Spinoza
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Carl Schmitt ⓘ David Hume ⓘ Jean-Jacques Rousseau ⓘ John Locke ⓘ modern political realism ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Aristotle
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Francis Bacon ⓘ Galileo Galilei ⓘ Niccolò Machiavelli ⓘ
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Machiavelli
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| knownFor |
concept of state of nature
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defense of absolute sovereignty ⓘ pessimistic view of human nature ⓘ social contract theory ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
epistemology
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ethics ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ philosophy of law ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ |
| name | Thomas Hobbes self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
De Cive
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De Corpore ⓘ De Homine ⓘ Leviathan ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool |
materialism
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mechanistic philosophy ⓘ social contract theory ⓘ |
| publicationDateOfWork Leviathan | 1651 ⓘ |
| religion | Anglican background with heterodox views ⓘ |
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Hobbesian social contract
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Hobbesian social contract ⓘ
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Hobbesian sovereignty
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| view |
argued for strong centralized authority to prevent civil war and chaos
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argued that life in the state of nature is 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short' ⓘ defended a materialist account of reality ⓘ held that all phenomena, including thought, can be explained mechanically ⓘ held that political obligation arises from a social contract ⓘ |
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