Thomas Hobbes There were great philosophers such as Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, and Thomas Hobbes, who influenced their own time. ... To begin with, Thomas Hobbes was born in 1588. ... In 1652 Hobbes returned to England and made peace with the government of Thomas Cromwell. ... Leviathan is no doubt Hobbes's most significant book. ... To conclude, Thomas Hobbes was one of the most significant philosophers of the history. ...
Compare and Contrast Hobbes" and Locke's State's of Nature Thomas Hobbes lived in seventeenth century England. ... In the Leviathan, Hobbes attempts to explain the nature of power. ... (Hobbes, The Leviathan) Fortunately man is endowed with reason which in turn enables him to recognize his problem and ultimately discover a solution to said problem. ... In my opinion, Hobbes" state of nature is an anarchical one. ... Like Hobbes, Locke believed that all men are born free and equal. ...
Thomas Hobbes, the famous author of "Leviathan", (1651), was a theorist on the law, the state of nature and the concept of social contract, and as such, one of the founders of modern political philosophy. ... In fact, several great philosophers and authors rose to say that Hobbes and Rousseau are not the philosophers that they pretended to be. ... Hobbes witnessed civil wars in England and in France, the Cromwell Dictature, and the killing of Charles I. ... Furthermore, when Hobbes talks about the designation of a sovereign, we can also give an other interpretation. ... Additi...
Hobbes and Locke; the State of Nature and Sovereignty John Locke and Thomas Hobbes both wrote on many of the same issues of social philosophy yet due to a basic different philosophical conception of the world, they held very different opinions. Hobbes's view of the man's place in the natural world is famously described in Chapter 13 of Leviathan; " .continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."" ... In short, man in nature was in a perpetual state of war thought Hobbes. ... Locke clearly delineates the b...
