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Wrote [[The Leviathan]] after the Civil War | |||
His political theory was absolutist | |||
Four tracts | |||
Elements of law | |||
Thord text is leviathan | |||
Always natural give up your rights to one person or group. the alternative to not doing so is war. | |||
Father was alcolhlic cleryman but had a rich uncle who sends him to Oxford | |||
Lord Hardwicj (Devonshiore nbeeds a tutor. Hobbes is recommended even though he is only he years older. Stays with the Devonshire's for the next seventy years even though he was often at odds | |||
Translated History of the Peloponnesian war by Thyclides (wants to understand democracy which is growing in England Hobbes was against) who he thinks is opposed to democracy. Democracies are chaotic. He thinks he should have a supreme authority (which could be democratic but the problem is democrats keeps changing their mind. Conflict between people who are driven to improve their lot which must be contrary to what other people want | |||
His politics is extreme and absolutist - all property belongs to the King. | |||
Hobbes had circulated the ?? of law. He fears his view will get him into trouble. The LOng Parliament investigates those who | |||
1640 - 1652 he stays in France where he writes the Leviathan. Morality - He reduces all beings to matter and motion. Human form have reason and will which sets in apart from animals. The will allows selects the natural moral good. In the Leviathan he gets rid of the objective natural goodness only what the human believes is right and wrong. You have the right to believe in the right and wrong on your own terms. | |||
In the frontis piece on the Leviathan. A large number of small people who make up the monster. A large number of individuals have been made in to one monstrous body. For Hobbes there is no such things as a body of people. The contract or covenant can only be a contract between each and everyone of these people that there be a sovereign. The act of all of us agreeing to make one preson supreme who has his will paramount and will tell peiople waht to thing or legislate on behalf of everyone elsemakes as unity of the representor not representatives. That is what the state is. | |||
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| Born |
5 April 1588 Westport, Wiltshire, England |
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| Died |
4 December 1679 (aged 91) Derbyshire, England |
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17th-century philosophy (Modern Philosophy) |
| Region | Western Philosophers |
| School | Social contract, classical realism, empiricism, materialism, ethical egoism |
| Main interests | Political philosophy, history, ethics, geometry |
| Notable ideas | Modern founder of the social contract tradition; life in the state of nature is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short" |
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Wrote The Leviathan after the Civil War
His political theory was absolutist Four tracts Elements of law Thord text is leviathan
Always natural give up your rights to one person or group. the alternative to not doing so is war. Father was alcolhlic cleryman but had a rich uncle who sends him to Oxford Lord Hardwicj (Devonshiore nbeeds a tutor. Hobbes is recommended even though he is only he years older. Stays with the Devonshire's for the next seventy years even though he was often at odds
Translated History of the Peloponnesian war by Thyclides (wants to understand democracy which is growing in England Hobbes was against) who he thinks is opposed to democracy. Democracies are chaotic. He thinks he should have a supreme authority (which could be democratic but the problem is democrats keeps changing their mind. Conflict between people who are driven to improve their lot which must be contrary to what other people want
His politics is extreme and absolutist - all property belongs to the King.
Hobbes had circulated the ?? of law. He fears his view will get him into trouble. The LOng Parliament investigates those who
1640 - 1652 he stays in France where he writes the Leviathan. Morality - He reduces all beings to matter and motion. Human form have reason and will which sets in apart from animals. The will allows selects the natural moral good. In the Leviathan he gets rid of the objective natural goodness only what the human believes is right and wrong. You have the right to believe in the right and wrong on your own terms.
In the frontis piece on the Leviathan. A large number of small people who make up the monster. A large number of individuals have been made in to one monstrous body. For Hobbes there is no such things as a body of people. The contract or covenant can only be a contract between each and everyone of these people that there be a sovereign. The act of all of us agreeing to make one preson supreme who has his will paramount and will tell peiople waht to thing or legislate on behalf of everyone elsemakes as unity of the representor not representatives. That is what the state is.
Religion
