Thomas Hobbes was born in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, on 5 April 1588, the son of a clergyman. His father left the family in 1604 and never returned, so a wealthy uncle sponsored Hobbes' education at ...

Thomas Hobbes was the first great defender of determinism as we know it. After he gets some terminology sorted out in this account of the nature of causation from his Elements of Philosophy, he says ...

When 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes likened his ideal government to a Biblical monster, the leviathan, he wished to convey the immense complexity and power of the sovereign state.

Alistair MacFarlane considers the long and thoughtful life of Thomas Hobbes. Thomas Hobbes was one of those very rare people who had a fundamental insight into what would come to dominate life ...

Noted as much for his pioneering studies of Thomas Hobbes and Niccolo Machiavelli as for his revisionist accounts of Francis ...

Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes is a universally beloved comic strip, but some major things about the story are completely ...

“One of the greatest geniuses of the 17th Century” was how Pierre Bayle (1646-1707), a French lexicographer, described Thomas Hobbes in his Dictionnaire Historique et Critique (p.467). It is hard to ...

Jesse Eisenberg's acclaimed film avoids the tropes and tragedies that have defined other Jewish Academy Award nominees.

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1988. Introduction / G.A.J. Rogers -- Hobbes and Descartes / Richard Tuck -- Hobbes and the Royal Society / Noel Malcolm -- The science ...

By Ed Smith The Sirens’ Call, by the American television host Chris Hayes, cites a lot of big thinkers – Pascal, Thomas Hobbes, JM Keynes – to support the thesis that holding our attention is central ...