Hobbes
[hɔbz]
Definition
(noun.) 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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Examples
- He would make a good secretary, now, like Hobbes, Milton, Swift--that sort of man. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The doctrine of the social contract formulated by Hobbes and made current by Rousseau can no longer be accepted as a true account of the origin of society. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Hobbes spent months in daily intercourse with this group of scientists in the winter of 1636-37. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- All the points of time and place, say some philosophers [Mr. Hobbes. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Through him Descartes was drawn into debate with Hobbes, and with Gassendi, a champion of the experimental method. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- His letters to Galileo, Jean Rey, Hobbes, Des cartes, Gassendi, not to mention other scientists and philoso phers, constitute an encyclopedia of the learning of the time. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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