In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes set forth the argument that when “men live without other security than what their own strength ...

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As a trained political scientist who grew up with a father who was also a political scientist, I’ve long been familiar with the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes’s assertion that without ...

Hobbes is full of joyously independent attitudes and ideas, a state at odds with the secular authoritarianism that Thomas ...

English philosopher Thomas Hobbes believed that life would be "nasty, brutish and short" without a strong government. IDEAS explores how a new take on Hobbes offers a surprising perspective on the ...

The dog's name appears to be a play on 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," in which he described human existence as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." ...

Philosophy often flourishes in the aftermath of wars, especially lost wars. Socrates served in the losing Athenian army in the Peloponnesian War; Thomas Hobbes wrote “Leviathan” while in exile ...

THREE hundred years ago appeared the first of Hobbes's chief philosophical works, his “De Cive”. The “Leviathan” followed in 1645, the “De Corpore” in 1655 and the “De Homine ...

The philosopher Thomas Hobbes is our best guide to the underlying logic of current American politics, that is, as to how and why extreme civil strife seems to invite one-man rule.

Gray’s jaundiced view of the liberal tradition partly explains his odd use of the seventeenth-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Each chapter of The New Leviathans begins with a quotation from ...