Similar words: thomas hobbes, hobby, hobble, hobbing, bobber, robber, bobbed, jobber. Meaning: n. 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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1 Hobbes is quite explicit about this.
2 Both personally, and in his political philosophy, Hobbes placed a high premium on peace and stability.
3 One, deriving from Hobbes and Locke, regards the consent given as an expression of rational enlightened self-interest.
4 Hobbes outlines how the methodical procedures of resolution and composition will result in such a science.
5 According to Hobbes, law is a command, the expression of the will of the sovereign.
6 Thomas Hobbes. Excerpt from Leviathan.
7 Hobbes This shit is nasty, brutish and short.
8 Thomas Hobbes : Autoritas, non veritas facit legem.
9 Hobbes was a gifted classical scholar.
10 Hobbes argues for absolute, indivisible sovereignty.
11 Hobbes, as might be expected, is an out-and-out nominalist.
12 As a devoted monarchist, Hobbes feared persecution if he stayed in an England run by Parliamentarians.
13 Hobbes put certain ideas at the forefront of attention in ethical philosophy.
14 Thomas Hobbes is a highly controversial scholar in philosophical history.
15 But as Hobbes was writing those words, the world around him was changing.
16 Western scholar Hugo Grotius, Thomas Hobbes , John Locke , Rousseau expand and supplement the human rights theory from different respects.
17 It was a fertile time for art (Rembrandt, Vermeer) and literature (Racine, Moliere, Milton, Pascal) and unfortunately, bad philosophy (Hobbes,(www.Sentencedict.com) Locke).
18 For Hobbes, then, nature was very much "red in tooth and claw, " as the English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote in the 1850 poem "In Memoriam."
19 Galileo, I have already indicated that Hobbes had met, William Harvey, Rene Descartes; a handful of others who were part of what we think of as the modern scientific revolutionaries.
20 Hobbes contested the scientific systems of the natural philosophers Francis Bacon and Robert Boyle.
21 Hobbes is a precursor of modern positivism and analytical jurisprudence.
22 As former Secretary of Bacon for five years, Hobbes reformed Arestotles' Rhetoric, treasured deduction and induction simultaneously, and endeavoured to hurl down the dogmatist authority.
23 In such a short and simple statement, Hobbes turns my former priority list – socializing with family and friends, work, exercise, household chores, then rest – completely on its head.
24 I guess this is what Hobbes meant by "Nasty, short, and brutish," Or whatever the fourth was. I don't remember, but what life was in the Thirty years' War, that was the way it was.
25 She is trying to track down a piece of forgotten Toronto history: an effort to confer Protestant sainthood on Father Hobbes.
26 This famous and much-discussed distinction between primary and secondary qualities has historical antecedents in Galileo, Descartes, and Hobbes.
27 What it would actually mean is lives that would be-as Hobbes put it-nasty, brutish and short.
28 Given his admiration for the scientific achievements of Galileo and Harvey, it is no surprise that Hobbes shares their methodological ideas.
29 And it is precisely this desire to be self-governing, you might say to rule directly, to have a direct part in political rule, that Hobbes saw as one of the great root causes of civil war.
30 Matthew Arnold contrasted "culture" with "anarchy; "other Europeans, following philosophers Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, contrasted "culture" with "the state of nature.