Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes

Born	(1588-04-05)5 April 1588 Westport, Wiltshire, England
Died	4 December 1679(1679-12-04) (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"
Influenced by Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Thucydides, Tacitus, Galileo, Machiavelli, Descartes
Influenced Butler, Leibniz, Spinoza; Locke