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Thomas Hobbes (/hɒbz/; 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679), in some older texts Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury,[1] was an English philosopher who is considered one of the founders of modern political philosophy.[2][3] Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, which expounded an influential formulation of social contract theory.[4] In addition to political philosophy, Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of other fields, including history, jurisprudence, geometry, the physics of gases, theology, ethics, and general philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes | |
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Born | (1588-04-05)5 April 1588 |
Died | 4 December 1679(1679-12-04) (aged 91) |
Alma mater | Magdalen Hall, Oxford |
Era | 17th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Social contract, classical realism, empiricism, determinism, materialism, ethical egoism |
Main interests | Political philosophy, history, ethics, geometry |
Notable ideas | Modern founder of the social contract tradition; life in the state of nature is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short"; bellum omnium contra omnes |
His understanding of humans as being matter and motion, obeying the same physical laws as other matter and motion, remains influential; and his account of human nature as self-interested cooperation, and of political communities as being based upon a "social contract" remains one of the major topics of political philosophy.