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1 day ago · Ink drawing on manuscript offered by Thomas Hobbes to Charles II. Credit to Wikimedia Commons: Wenceslas Hollar / Abraham Bosse. - British Library. Ms Egerton 1910. Hobbes’ perfect state is a commonwealth governed by a sovereign power that has absolute authority. This way, they can protect and ensure the safety of the people.
3 days ago · Knowledge is power appeared in the writing of many authors over the years, including Thomas Hobbes and Michel Foucault. One of the most notable is Thomas Jefferson, ...
5 days ago · Molesworth, William, Sir, 1810-1855. Title. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes Volume 3 (of 11) Original Publication. London: John Bohn, 1839. Credits. Emmanuel Ackerman, KD Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https: //www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) Language.
1 day ago · The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes and his classic work Leviathan (1651) can most immediately be identified with the kind of sovereignty that the first point makes in terms of unmissable and unmistakable presence.
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2 days ago · Thomas Hobbes was a brilliant student, a superb prose stylist and a classicist who translated Thucydides and became a tutor to the future earl of Devonshire. He wrote Leviathan , his sprawling vision of a world forever at war, in Paris in the 1640s, in the company of exiled royalists who had fled the English Civil War (1642–1651).
1 day ago · As used by Thomas Hobbes in his treatises Leviathan and De Cive, natural law is "a precept, or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man is forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life, or takes away the means of preserving the same; and to omit that by which he thinks it may best be preserved."
