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Meanings of Hobbes in English
English materialist and political philosopher who advocated absolute sovereignty as the only kind of government that could resolve problems caused by the selfishness of human beings (1588-1679)
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This was the view of Hobbes; and it is also admitted by
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Thomas Hobbes had taken the Ship of Theseus story one step further.
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He referred to Hobbes as Leviathan; and to Francis Bacon, as Verulamius.
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Read Hobbes if you want to get hard sense in good English.
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Such were the founders of our literature-Baconand Hobbes, Newton and Milton.
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The doctrine of the English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, is as unequivocally egoistic.
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She'd always just gone out...Hobbes is my father's man, body and soul.
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Like Calvin and Hobbes, he clearly still has more exploring to do.
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Pascal had given place to Hobbes and Voltaire, and Hooker to Paley.
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Clearness and propriety of style are the chief excellencies of Hobbes's writings.
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I looked at Hobbes, then at the knife still on the tray.
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Shopper Sue Hobbes was out getting last-minute gifts for family in Auckland.
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Lieutenant Hobbes shoved his way past the first passenger car door.
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John Locke, Samuel Pufendorf, even Thomas Hobbes would have said the same thing.
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Erasmus sprang forward, and Hobbes on his other side, to pull her free.
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Perhaps this can best be summed up by Calvin and Hobbes.