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Thomas Hobbes

Portrait by John Michael Wright, c. 1669–1670

Born(1588-04-05)5 April 1588

Westport, Wiltshire, England

Died4 December 1679(1679-12-04) (aged 91)

Derbyshire, England

EducationMagdalen Hall, Oxford
St John's College, Cambridge (B.A., 1608)

Notable work

  • De Cive (1647)
  • Leviathan (1651)
  • De Corpore (1655)
  • Behemoth (1681)
Era17th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
School

Main interests

Political philosophy, history, ethics, geometry

Notable ideas

Social contract
State of nature
Bellum omnium contra omnes

Influences

Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides, Epicurus, Cicero, Tacitus, William of Ockham, René Descartes, Hugo Grotius, Niccolò Machiavelli, Francis Bacon, Paolo Sarpi, Thomas White, Roger Bacon, Robert Grosseteste

Thomas Hobbes (hobz; 5/15 April 1588 – 4/14 December 1679) was an Englishphilosopher.

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