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Thomas Hobbes

Born

in Westport, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England

April 05, 1588

Died

December 04, 1679

Website

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hobbes/

Genre

Philosophy, History, Politics

Influences

Aristotle, Descartes, Niccolò Machiavelli, Thucydides, Hugo Grotius ...more

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Thomas Hobbes was a British philosopher and a seminal thinker of modern political philosophy. His ideas were marked by a mechanistic materialist foundation, a characterization of human nature based on greed and fear of death, and support for an absolute monarchical form of government. His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory.

He was also a scholar of classical Greek history and literature, and produced English translation of Illiad, Odyssey and History of Peloponnesian War.

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	Leviathan 3.70 avg rating — 51,705 ratings — published 1651 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Citizen by Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (Editor), Michael Silverthorne (Editor) 3.85 avg rating — 666 ratings — published 1998 — 98 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Human Nature and De Corpore Politico by Thomas Hobbes, J.C.A. Gaskin (Editor) 3.83 avg rating — 291 ratings — published 1640 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Of Man 3.50 avg rating — 235 ratings — published 1658 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Man and Citizen by Thomas Hobbes, Bernard Gert (Editor) 3.88 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 1972 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leviatán, Tomo I (Leviatán, #1) 3.71 avg rating — 180 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Behemoth: the history of the causes of the civil wars of England, and of the counsels and artifices by which they were carried on from the year 1640 to the year 1660 by Thomas Hobbes, Ferdinand Tönnies (Editor), Stephen Holmes (Introduction) 3.80 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 1682 — 74 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England by Thomas Hobbes, Joseph Cropsey (Editor) 3.48 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1971 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Works of Thomas Hobbes 3.93 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leviatán, Tomo II (Leviatán, #2) by Thomas Hobbes, Antonio Escohotado (traducción) 3.60 avg rating — 30 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”
― Thomas Hobbes

tags: life-lessons, mistakes

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“Hell is truth seen too late.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

tags: hell, timing, truth

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“Scientia potentia est.

Knowledge is power.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

tags: knowledge, power

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