Thomas+Hobbes

 = //Thomas Hobbes// =



//"The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice, have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law; where no law, no injustice. Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues."//   = //Born in April of 1588, Thomas Hobbes was reported prematurely because of the stress created by the news of the Spanish Armada. His father abandoned his family when he was a young boy so his uncle raised him. At the age 15, Hobbes started attending Magdalen College, Oxford. He graduated Magdalen College at age 19 and became well connected with the Cavendish family. His first job was beign a private tutor to William Cavendish, who later became the 2nd Earl of Devonshire. In 1629, he published a translation of Thucydide's "History of the Peloponnesian War". In 1636, Hobbes met Galileo, and it was at that time that he  became a devotee to the new science of mathematics. Because of his new passion, Hobbes published 3 books. The first one, in 1655, called De Corpore focused on the behavior of physical life. The second book, published in 1658, called De Homine, focused on the actions or behavior of the human body and mind. The third book, called De cive, applied these pronciples to man's organized social life. //   =

 //Hobbes believed in the mortality of the soul. His most famous work, "leviathan" disagrees with the thoughts of Aristotle, Plato, Locke, and a few others. He distinguished the "Laws of Nature", which are the rules that tell us how to preserve ourselves. Hobbes believed that as long as each individual decides the beast means of preservation, conflict is inevitable. Also that everyone renounce the power in support of the sovereign's decision. And once everyone has agreed to accept and enforce the sovereign's decisions, it will be possible to impose peace and order.

Thomas Hobbes had a fine impact on the Bill of Rights. He believed in the "socail contract". the social contract is the belief of natural rights. Hobbes very well explained his beliefs in "The Leviathan". The Leviathan explained thoroughly Hobbes' beliefs and was an influence on some parts of the Bill of Rights. The beliefs of Hobbes led to knowledge of not philosophy, but of senses. Man started to draw conclusions based on the experiences that they went threw. The main idea of what Hobbes' beliefs were is, "Men are born equal and free and are radically independent actors, each with a mind of his own." This is saying that man is born with all these rights and they can and will think how they please. //

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