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| school_tradition = [[Social contract]], [[political realism|classical realism]], [[empiricism]], [[materialism]], [[ethical egoism]] | | school_tradition = [[Social contract]], [[political realism|classical realism]], [[empiricism]], [[materialism]], [[ethical egoism]] | ||
| main_interests = [[Political philosophy]], history, ethics, [[geometry]] | | main_interests = [[Political philosophy]], history, ethics, [[geometry]] | ||
| influences = [[Plato]], [[Aristotle]], [[Epicurus]], [[Thucydides]], [[Tacitus]], | | influences = [[Plato]], [[Aristotle]], [[Epicurus]], [[Thucydides]], [[Tacitus]], [[Galileo]], [[Machiavelli]], [[Descartes]] | ||
| influenced = [[Joseph Butler|Butler]], [[Leibniz]], [[Spinoza]]; [[Locke]] | | influenced = [[Joseph Butler|Butler]], [[Leibniz]], [[Spinoza]]; [[Locke]] | ||
| notable_ideas = Modern founder of the [[social contract]] tradition; life in the [[state of nature]] is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short"}} | | 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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| Born |
5 April 1588 Westport, Wiltshire, England |
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| Died |
4 December 1679 (aged 91) Derbyshire, England |
| Era |
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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