His father also named thomas hobbes was the vicar a clergyman in charge of a church of westport near malmesbury in gloucestershire england.

Thomas hobbes background. Thomas hobbes was born in westport adjoining malmesbury england on april 5 1588. Thomas was then raised and educated by an uncle and studied at. Phyllis doyle the contemporary background of hobbes state of nature economica no. Thomas hobbes h ɒ b z hobz.

Hobbes was employed by the cavendish family the earls of devonshire. Thomas hobbes was born in malmesbury in 1588. Newcastle and his brother employed him in the following decade. The two branches of the cavendish family nourished hobbes s enduring intellectual interests in politics and natural science respectively.

Thomas hobbes 1588 1679 whose current reputation rests largely on his political philosophy was a thinker with wide ranging interests. Stephen hobbes macmillan london 1904. In philosophy he defended a range of materialist nominalist and empiricist views against cartesian and aristotelian alternatives. His father was a wayward country vicar and he was mainly brought up by an uncle.

Pogson smith the philosophy of hobbes inserted in an english edition of leviathan at the clarendon press oxford 1909. 5 april 1588 4 december 1679 was an english philosopher considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. His father was the disgraced vicar of a local parish and in the wake of the precipitating scandal caused by. Thomas hobbes was an english philosopher scientist and historian best known for his political philosophy especially as articulated in his masterpiece leviathan 1651.

Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book leviathan in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. Thomas hobbes mechanical conception of nature translated from the danish hachette london 1928. In physics his work was influential on leibniz and led him into disputes with boyle and the experimentalists of the early. Sometimes known as thomas hobbes of malmesbury.

His father left the family in 1604 and never returned so a wealthy uncle sponsored hobbes education at. He liked to recall that he was born prematurely because his mother heard the approaching spanish armada. Though on rational grounds a champion of absolutism for the sovereign hobbes also developed some of the fundamentals of european liberal thought. In addition to political philosophy hobbes contributed to.

Portrait of thomas hobbes by john michael wright national portrait gallery london thomas hobbes 1651 book leviathan established social contract theory the foundation of most later western political philosophy. Thomas hobbes thomas hobbes intellectual development. In hobbes s social contract the many trade liberty for safety. Thomas hobbes was born in malmesbury wiltshire on 5 april 1588 the son of a clergyman.

His enduring contribution was as a political philosopher who justified wide ranging government powers on the basis of the self interested consent of citizens. Hobbes served the earls of devonshire intermittently until 1628.

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