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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31 Well, Hobbes took this mechanist view of nature to its extreme.
32 Because of his materialist philosophy and his opposition to the established church, Hobbes was often labeled an atheist, though he never professed to be one.
33 Science, or what Hobbes simply calls " by the name "reason," is simply the fullest expression of human artfulness.
34 So Hobbes was very much a bogy man and he remained a bogy man for a long time.
35 And the idea crops up again in the works of Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century philosopher, and Erasmus Darwin (Charles's grandfather), who lived in the 18th.
36 Secondly, it comes from the theory of contract of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.
37 The reasoning of Caligula agrees with that of Hobbes and Grotius.
38 Augustine, Hobbes and Locke had provided theoretic foundation for these system paradigm.
39 Hobbes was the tutor to a royal household who followed the King into exile during the English Civil War.
40 Hobbes in the Hobbesian doctrine of sovereignty, or the Hobbesian sovereign, to have a complete monopoly of power within his given territory.
41 Without top - down government, Hobbes claimed(sentencedict.com), there would be only collective selfishness.
42 As a devout Anglican, Thomas Hobbes supplements and clarifies his political theory by the Bible and theological doctrine.
43 It was, above all, the influence of the classics, Aristotle and Cicero in particular, that Hobbes regards as an important cause for the recent civil war and the regicide of Charles I.
44 Political philosophy is the oldest of the social sciences and it can boast a wealth of heavy hitters from Plato and Aristotle to Machiavelli Hobbes Hegel Tocqueville Nietzsche and so on.
45 Hobbes 、 Locke 、 Rousseau is the three representatives of the social contract doctrine.
46 Hobbes has ingeniously demonstrated an obligation, grounded solely in self preservation, to submit absolute sovereign.
47 Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War: An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes.
47 Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.
48 In particular, are our political rulers properly as unlimited in their powers as Hobbes had suggested?
49 There is for Hobbes, as for Thrasymachus, no higher court of appeal than the will or the word of the sovereign, no transcendent law, no divine law, no source of authority outside sovereign command.
50 This is an introduction to the political views of Thomas Hobbes, which are often deemed paradoxical.
51 Aristotle's doctrine that man is a political animal, Hobbes believed, could only result and did result, in fact, in regicide, the murder of kings.
52 For Hobbes, Aristotle taught the dangerous doctrine of republican government that was seen to be practiced particularly during the Cromwellian Period in England, during the civil war.
53 Discussed the thought according to the respective social contract, Hobbes and Locke have formed the statism theory and the limited government theory separately.