'In addition to political philosophy, Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of other fields, including history, geometry, the physics of gases, theology, ethics, and general philosophy.

20, the Age of Enlightenment, textbook from Lumen Learning It’s important to note that there is no single best book on Hobbes. His understanding of humans as being matter and motion, obeying the same physical laws as other matter and motion, remains influential and his account of human nature as self-interested cooperation, and of political communities as being based upon a 'social contract' remains one of the major topics of political philosophy.' The Six Best Books on or by Thomas Hobbes Lennox Johnson SeptemBooks From beginner-friendly introductions to classic works by Thomas Hobbes, this page features books to suit any learning style.

He was one of the founders of modern political philosophy and political science. Though on rational grounds a champion of absolutism for the sovereign, Hobbes also developed some of the fundamentals of European liberal thought: the right of the individual the natural equality of all men the artificial character of the political order (which led to the later distinction between civil society and the state) the view that all legitimate political power must be 'representative' and based on the consent of the people and a liberal interpretation of law which leaves people free to do whatever the law does not explicitly forbid. His 1651 book Leviathan established social contract theory, the foundation of most later Western political philosophy. 'Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury (April 1588 – 4 December 1679), was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy. After Hobbes, John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau are the best known proponents of this enormously influential theory, which has been one of the most.

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