1588 - 1679

Nationality:
English

Historical Period:
The Early Modern Period

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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.

Titles:

• Author: British Moralists vol. 2
• Author: English Works of Thomas Hobbes, 11 vols.
• Author: The English Works, vol. III (Leviathan)
• Author: The English Works, vol. VI (Dialogue, Behemoth, Rhetoric)
• Translator: The English Works, vol. VIII (The Peloponnesian War Part I)
• Translator: The English Works, vol. IX (The Peloponnesian War Part II)
• Translator: The English Works, vol. X (Iliad and Odyssey)
• Author: Leviathan (1909 ed)
• Author: Study Guides on Images of Liberty and Power: The Divine Right of Kings or Regal Tyranny?

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)

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