1 Hobbes is quite explicit about this.

2 Both personally, and in his political philosophy, Hobbes placed a high premium on peace and stability.

3 One, deriving from Hobbes and Locke, regards the consent given as an expression of rational enlightened self-interest.

4 Hobbes outlines how the methodical procedures of resolution and composition will result in such a science.

5 According to Hobbes, law is a command(), the expression of the will of the sovereign.

6 Thomas Hobbes. Excerpt from Leviathan.

7 Hobbes This shit is nasty, brutish and short.

8 Thomas Hobbes : Autoritas, non veritas facit legem.

9 Hobbes was a gifted classical scholar.

10 Hobbes argues for absolute, indivisible sovereignty.

11 Hobbes, as might be expected, is an out-and-out nominalist.

12 As a devoted monarchist, Hobbes feared persecution if he stayed in an England run by Parliamentarians.

13 Hobbes put certain ideas at the forefront of attention in ethical philosophy.

14 Thomas Hobbes is a highly controversial scholar in philosophical history.

15 But as Hobbes was writing those words, the world around him was changing.

16 Western scholar Hugo Grotius, Thomas Hobbes , John Locke , Rousseau expand and supplement the human rights theory from different respects.

17 It was a fertile time for art (Rembrandt, Vermeer) and literature (Racine, Moliere, Milton, Pascal) and unfortunately, bad philosophy (Hobbes, Locke).

18 For Hobbes, then, nature was very much "red in tooth and claw, " as the English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote in the 1850 poem "In Memoriam."

19 Galileo, I have already indicated that Hobbes had met, William Harvey, Rene Descartes; a handful of others who were part of what we think of as the modern scientific revolutionaries.

20 Hobbes contested the scientific systems of the natural philosophers Francis Bacon and Robert Boyle.

21 Hobbes is a precursor of modern positivism and analytical jurisprudence.

22 As former Secretary of Bacon for five years, Hobbes reformed Arestotles' Rhetoric, treasured deduction and induction simultaneously, and endeavoured to hurl down the dogmatist authority.

23 In such a short and simple statement, Hobbes turns my former priority list – socializing with family and friends, work, exercise, household chores, then rest – completely on its head.

24 I guess this is what Hobbes meant by "Nasty, short, and brutish," Or whatever the fourth was. I don't remember, but what life was in the Thirty years' War, that was the way it was.

25 She is trying to track down a piece of forgotten Toronto history: an effort to confer Protestant sainthood on Father Hobbes.

26 This famous and much-discussed distinction between primary and secondary qualities has historical antecedents in Galileo, Descartes, and Hobbes.

27 What it would actually mean is lives that would be-as Hobbes put it-nasty, brutish and short.

28 Given his admiration for the scientific achievements of Galileo and Harvey, it is no surprise that Hobbes shares their methodological ideas.

29 And it is precisely this desire to be self-governing, you might say to rule directly, to have a direct part in political rule, that Hobbes saw as one of the great root causes of civil war.

30 Matthew Arnold contrasted "culture" with "anarchy; "other Europeans, following philosophers Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, contrasted "culture" with "the state of nature.

31 Well, Hobbes took this mechanist view of nature to its extreme.

32 Because of his materialist philosophy and his opposition to the established church, Hobbes was often labeled an atheist, though he never professed to be one.

33 Science, or what Hobbes simply calls " by the name "reason," is simply the fullest expression of human artfulness.

34 So Hobbes was very much a bogy man and he remained a bogy man for a long time.

35 And the idea crops up again in the works of Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century philosopher, and Erasmus Darwin (Charles's grandfather), who lived in the 18th.

36 Secondly, it comes from the theory of contract of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.

37 The reasoning of Caligula agrees with that of Hobbes and Grotius.

38 Augustine, Hobbes and Locke had provided theoretic foundation for these system paradigm.

39 Hobbes was the tutor to a royal household who followed the King into exile during the English Civil War.

40 Hobbes in the Hobbesian doctrine of sovereignty, or the Hobbesian sovereign, to have a complete monopoly of power within his given territory.

41 Without top - down government, Hobbes claimed, there would be only collective selfishness.

42 As a devout Anglican, Thomas Hobbes supplements and clarifies his political theory by the Bible and theological doctrine.

43 It was, above all, the influence of the classics, Aristotle and Cicero in particular, that Hobbes regards as an important cause for the recent civil war and the regicide of Charles I.

44 Political philosophy is the oldest of the social sciences and it can boast a wealth of heavy hitters from Plato and Aristotle to Machiavelli Hobbes Hegel Tocqueville Nietzsche and so on.

45 Hobbes 、 Locke 、 Rousseau is the three representatives of the social contract doctrine.

46 Hobbes has ingeniously demonstrated an obligation, grounded solely in self preservation, to submit absolute sovereign.

47 Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War: An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes.

47 is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.

48 In particular, are our political rulers properly as unlimited in their powers as Hobbes had suggested?

49 There is for Hobbes, as for Thrasymachus, no higher court of appeal than the will or the word of the sovereign, no transcendent law, no divine law, no source of authority outside sovereign command.

50 This is an introduction to the political views of Thomas Hobbes, which are often deemed paradoxical.

51 Aristotle's doctrine that man is a political animal, Hobbes believed, could only result and did result, in fact, in regicide, the murder of kings.

52 For Hobbes, Aristotle taught the dangerous doctrine of republican government that was seen to be practiced particularly during the Cromwellian Period in England, during the civil war.

53 Discussed the thought according to the respective social contract, Hobbes and Locke have formed the statism theory and the limited government theory separately.