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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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        The doctrine of the English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, is as unequivocally egoistic.
        A Handbook of Ethical Theory
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        John Locke, Samuel Pufendorf, even Thomas Hobbes would have said the same thing.
        How the scots invented the modern world: the true story of how w...
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        Love also proves man is not inherently selfish, as Thomas Hobbes had claimed.
        How the scots invented the modern world: the true story of how w...
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        The European nation-states were built, partly, on principles outlined in Thomas Hobbes' 1651 book Leviathan.
        Wired
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        So preoccupied was Thomas Hobbes with geometry that he sometimes diagrammed propositions on his bedsheets.
        The last novel
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        The seventeenth-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes observed that people honor raw power irrespective of its moral justification:
        The portable atheist: essential readings for the nonbeliever
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        Life then was indeed "nasty, brutish and short", as philosopher Thomas Hobbes put it.
        The Guardian
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        Come back, Thomas Hobbes, all is forgiven.
        The Guardian
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        It was Thomas Hobbes not John Locke who described life as "nasty, brutish and short".
        The Irish Times
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        Thought experiments formed the foundation of Western philosophy -from Socrates to Thomas Hobbes to Simone de Beauvoir.
        Wired
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        I scanned some of the Greek philosophers, the Bible, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and the fathers of American democracy.
        Feminist dot com
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        East L.A. Thomas Hobbes.
        Wastelands
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        And, as Thomas Hobbes phrased the matter in 1651, the oftener they have been observed in like connection, the less uncertain is the sign.
        The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10
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        He was acutely aware of the standard objections to his view, not only from cynics like Thomas Hobbes but from his fellow Calvinists as well.
        How the scots invented the modern world: the true story of how w...
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        Thomas Hobbes had taken the Ship of Theseus story one step further.
        Raising Stony Mayhall
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        Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan possesses a deceptive front cover, according to philosopher and roving book editor, David Hall.
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