Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was an English philosopher ... where he taught several generations of students and published fifteen books. Trained in the neo-Kantian tradition with Ernst Cassirer and ...

which was published just after the execution of Charles I. When Hobbes returned from France, the powers in London were debating matters central to the book. Hobbes had a clearly articulated and ...

His book Leviathan virtually founded the study of the modern state. When Thomas Hobbes published Leviathan in 1651, he set a model for the understanding of the nature, purpose and justification of ...

not a clipped-wing demigod somehow set apart,” said Thomas Holden, a UC Santa Barbara philosophy professor with a new book on Hobbes. While Hobbes’ writings are best known as the building ...

I scurried to buy the book, expecting to find a discussion of Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century British philosopher, and John Calvin, a 16th-century Protestant minister, both of whom held bleak views ...

Translated by Yashar Jeyrani, the book has been published by Now Publications in 332 pages, Mehr reported. “On the Citizen” is one of Thomas Hobbes's major works. The book was published originally in ...

When Thomas Hobbes ... Leviathans differ from Hobbes’s in important ways. Hobbes’s Leviathan—which took its name from the biblical sea monster mentioned in the Book of Job—curbed freedom ...

His book Leviathan virtually founded the study of the modern state. When Thomas Hobbes published Leviathan in 1651, he set a model for the understanding of the nature, purpose and justification of ...