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  2. Hobbes's moral and political philosophy - Wikipedia

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    Hobbes’s moral philosophy therefore provides justification for, and informs, the theories of sovereignty and the state of nature that underpin his political philosophy. [2] In utilising methods of deductive reasoning and motion science, Hobbes examines human emotion, reason and knowledge to construct his ideas of human nature (moral ...

  3. Thomas Hobbes - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Hobbes (/ h ɒ b z / HOBZ; 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher, best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. [4]

  4. Natural rights and legal rights - Wikipedia

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    Hobbes' conception of natural rights extended from his conception of man in a "state of nature". Thus he argued that the essential natural (human) right was "to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own Nature; that is to say, of his own Life; and consequently, of doing any thing, which in his own judgement, and ...

  5. Negative liberty - Wikipedia

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    Where Hobbes and Locke differ is the extent of the zone. Hobbes, who took a rather negative view of human nature, argued that a strong authority was needed to curb men's intrinsically wild, savage, and corrupt impulses. Only a powerful authority can keep at bay the permanent and always looming threat of anarchy.

  6. Human nature - Wikipedia

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    Rousseau's conception of human nature has been seen as the origin of many intellectual and political developments of the 19th and 20th centuries. [87] He was an important influence upon Kant, Hegel, and Marx, and the development of German idealism, historicism, and romanticism.

  7. De Corpore - Wikipedia

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    Hobbes in De Corpore states that the subject of philosophy is devoted to "bodies". He clarifies this by division: in English translation, natural philosophy is concerned with concept of "natural body" ( Latin : corpus naturale ), while the bodies called commonwealths are the concern of "civil philosophy". [ 5 ]

  8. Leviathan (Hobbes book) - Wikipedia

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    Hobbes describes human psychology without any reference to the summum bonum, or greatest good, as previous thought had done. According to Hobbes, not only is the concept of a summum bonum superfluous, but given the variability of human desires, there could be no such thing. Consequently, any political community that sought to provide the ...

  9. Nature (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    Going further, the philosophical concept of nature or natures as a special type of causation - for example that the way particular humans are is partly caused by something called "human nature" is an essential step towards Aristotle's teaching concerning causation, which became standard in all Western philosophy until the arrival of modern science.