Essays on Thomas Hobbes

Political philosopher Thomas Hobbes starts Chapter XIII by saying human beings are all basically equal. Today we are all familiar with the idea of equality, it’s a very powerful moral idea today. People believe in equality, it is obviously in the declaration of independence, all…

Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury was born on April 5th, 1588 in Westport, Wiltshire and lived in a time of great disruption. Hobbes was a key figure during the Enlightenment period and is considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. He was…

Many philosophers have disputed the motivations and reasons as to why we should follow moral norms, perhaps for religious reasons or to fit into society. For me, I believe simply that by following moral norms I will treat others as I would want to be…

‘We need not know what his purpose was in writing Leviathan or how he felt ’. Chris Goto-Jones (2011) asserts that scholars must ‘deprivilege spatial and regional appellations ’ and focus on understanding the discontinuities that lie amongst thought, regardless of Spatio-temporal context. Their advocacy…

Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury was born on April 5th, 1588 in Westport, Wiltshire and lived in a time of great disruption. Hobbes was a key figure during the Enlightenment period and is considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. He was…

Introduction Thomas Hobbes was born at Westport, England, on 5th April 1588. His father, Thomas Sr, was a small preacher of Westport. His childhood is almost unknown, and his mother’s name is unknown. Thomas Sr, Hobbes father, was involved in a fight with local clergy…

Law creates standards, keeps order, settles conflicts and protects the human rights and freedoms. However, a lawless society will suffer with chaos and crime. Hence, various philosophers have given their educated version and reasonings on the purpose of law, which have been referred to, throughout…

Hobbes or Locke? Thomas Hobbes and John Locke both have their own ideas on human nature. But, which of the two has the right idea? According to Hobbes, people are born evil, and if given the chance, they will save themselves rather than others and…

Man’s State of Nature and How Ideas Are Formed Thomas Hobbes and John Locke both have unique ideas about human nature and the way that ideas are formed in humans’ heads. Predicting human actions and analyzing what causes them is not something that can be…

Thomas Hobbes In the Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes is describing what makes up the core conditions of human nature and the constant state of war people face with each other from living in a state of nature. The state that humanity lives in now has come…

Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan (1651) is a critical work which argues that all men are united by their self-interests, and natural inclinations to acquire (the instinct of self-preservation and the desire for pleasure. Historically, leviathan commonly referred to a mammoth sea monster haunting the depths of…

One of the greatest contributors to modern-day psychology, in my opinion, would have to be Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), a contemporary of Descartes. Hobbes was a mechanistic thinker and saw living organisms not in terms of the whole but as a sum of the parts (Atkins,…