5 april 1588 4 december 1679 was an english philosopher considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy.

Thomas hobbes background. Hobbes served the earls of devonshire intermittently until 1628. His father was the disgraced vicar of a local parish and in the wake of the precipitating scandal caused by. Thomas hobbes thomas hobbes intellectual development. In addition to political philosophy hobbes contributed to.

Thomas hobbes was born in westport adjoining malmesbury england on april 5 1588. Newcastle and his brother employed him in the following decade. His father also named thomas hobbes was the vicar a clergyman in charge of a church of westport near malmesbury in gloucestershire england. He returned to the devonshires after the 1640s.

Thomas hobbes 1588 1679 whose current reputation rests largely on his political philosophy was a thinker with wide ranging interests. In philosophy he defended a range of materialist nominalist and empiricist views against cartesian and aristotelian alternatives. In hobbes s social contract the many trade liberty for safety. After being involved in a fight with another clergyman outside his own church the elder thomas hobbes was forced to flee to london england leaving his wife two boys and a girl behind.

Thomas was then raised and educated by an uncle and studied at. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book leviathan in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. Thomas hobbes h ɒ b z hobz. Thomas hobbes was born in malmesbury wiltshire on 5 april 1588 the son of a clergyman.

In physics his work was influential on leibniz and led him into disputes with boyle and the experimentalists of the early. Hobbes was employed by the cavendish family the earls of devonshire. He liked to recall that he was born prematurely because his mother heard the approaching spanish armada. Thomas hobbes was born in malmesbury in 1588.

Stephen hobbes macmillan london 1904. His father was a wayward country vicar and he was mainly brought up by an uncle. He was able to go to magdalen college oxford university to study between 1603 08. Thomas hobbes mechanical conception of nature translated from the danish hachette london 1928.

Phyllis doyle the contemporary background of hobbes state of nature economica no. Sometimes known as thomas hobbes of malmesbury. Portrait of thomas hobbes by john michael wright national portrait gallery london thomas hobbes 1651 book leviathan established social contract theory the foundation of most later western political philosophy. Though on rational grounds a champion of absolutism for the sovereign hobbes also developed some of the fundamentals of european liberal thought.

His enduring contribution was as a political philosopher who justified wide ranging government powers on the basis of the self interested consent of citizens. His father left the family in 1604 and never returned so a wealthy uncle sponsored hobbes education at.

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