Thomas Hobbes

1588 - 1679

About the Author

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was an English philosopher who lived during the English Revolution. He is most famous for his work of political philosophy The Leviathan.

In The Library:

• author: British Moralists, being Selections from Writers principally of the Eighteenth Century, vol. 2 (1897)
• author: The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, 11 vols. (1839)
• author: The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, vol. 3 (Leviathan) (1651)
• author: The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, vol. 6 (Dialogue, Behemoth, Rhetoric) (1839)
• translator: The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, vol. 8 (Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War Part I) (1839)
• translator: The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, vol. 9 (Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War Part II) (1839)
• translator: The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, vol. 10 (Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey) (1839)
• author: Leviathan (1909 ed) (1651)
• author: Study Guides on Images of Liberty and Power: The Divine Right of Kings or Regal Tyranny? (Hobbes and Lilburne) (2010)

Quotations:

• Thomas Hobbes sings a hymn of praise for Reason as “the pace”, scientific knowledge is “the way”, and the benefit of mankind is “the end” (1651) (7 February, 2005)