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Thomas Hobbes was born on 5 April 1588 (Old Style), in Westport, now part of Malmesbury in Wiltshire, England.Having been born prematurely when his mother heard of the coming invasion of the Spanish Armada, Hobbes later reported that "my mother gave birth to twins: myself and fear."
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679). Advocate of extensive government power, social contract theorist, materialist. Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655). Mechanicism. Empiricist. René Descartes (1596–1650). Heliocentrism, mind-body dualism, rationalism.
Influenced by Stoicism, Thomas Hobbes, René Descartes, [16] Ibn Tufayl, [17] and heterodox Christians, Spinoza was a leading philosopher of the Dutch Golden Age. [18] Spinoza was born in Amsterdam to a Marrano family that fled Portugal for the more tolerant Dutch Republic.
He was educated by Thomas Hobbes, the philosopher, who lived at Chatsworth as his private tutor for many years. In 1608, he went up to St John's College, Cambridge accompanied by Hobbes. [1] He was knighted at Whitehall in 1609. He then went with Hobbes on a Grand Tour from about
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Thomas Hobbs may refer to: Thomas Hobbes or Hobbs (1588–1679), English philosopher; Thomas Saunders Hobbs (1856–1927), English-born Ontario merchant and politician; Thomas Hobbs (MP), Member of Parliament for Weymouth in 1555; see Weymouth and Melcombe Regis; Thomas Hobbs, actor in Prince Charles's Men and the King's Men, the latter from ...
Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly referred to as Leviathan, is a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and published in 1651 (revised Latin edition 1668).
De Cive ('On the Citizen') is one of Thomas Hobbes's major works. The book was published originally in Latin from Paris in 1642, followed by two further Latin editions in 1647 from Amsterdam . The English translation of the work made its first appearance four years later (London 1651) under the title Philosophicall rudiments concerning ...