Thomas Hobbes in old age, with long hair and a broad lace collar, from Hollar’s etching

Thomas Hobbes

5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679
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An English philosopher, the founder of modern political philosophy. His books include De Cive (1642), Leviathan (1651), De Corpore (1655) and Behemoth (1681).

1651
Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill

Hobbes’s account of the commonwealth as an artificial man, made by the covenant of every man with every man to escape the war of all against all: the nature of man, the rights of the sovereign and the liberty of…

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