Thomas Hobbes

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Thomas Hobbes

• By Paul Pantazonis
• Larry Abel

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Early Life

• Born April 5, 1588 in Westport Wiltshire England
• Philosopher and political theorist
• Graduated from Magdalen Hall in Oxford

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The Elements (A Turning Point)

• Became obsessed with the idea of motion
• Decided basic reality is matter in motion
• Discussed his ideas in Paris, 1636 with Galileo

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Influences

• Aristotle, Galileo, Grotius, Plato Tacitus,
  Thucydides..
• Later an influence to all subsequent Western
  Political Philosophers

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Why is He Famous?

• The Elements of Law
• Natural and Politic
• Had to do with such as politics, peace
  psychological

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Some of His Beliefs

• Wanted peace and security
• Absence of peace man would live in state of war
• Solution to give guarantee good behavior

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Quotes From Thomas Hobbes

• A man cannot lay down the right of resisting
  them that assault him by force, to take away his
  life.
• In the state of nature profit is the measure of
  right.
• Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

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Extra (Perhaps Cool) Facts

• Died December 4, 1679
• Major works of Thomas Hobbes
• Human Nature, The Elements of Law, Moral and
  Politick, Ecclesiastical and Civil, The Questions
  Concerning Liberty, Necessity, and Chance