Hobbes

He delighted in the robust common sense of Thomas Hobbes; Spinoza filled him with awe, he had never before come in contact with a mind so noble, so unapproachable and austere; it reminded him of that statue by Rodin, L'Age d'Airain, which he passionately admired; and then there was Hume: the scepticism of that charming philosopher touched a kindred note in Philip; and, revelling in the lucid style which seemed able to put complicated thought into simple words, musical and measured, he read as he might have read a novel, a smile of pleasure on his lips.

Hobbes, 1655 (?), new edition, 1759; by the translators of the Art of Thinking, 1686, 1816; by D.

His strength, so extraordinarily developed, was a cause of still greater malevolence: " Malus puer robustus ," says Hobbes.

He would make a good secretary, now, like Hobbes, Milton, Swift--that sort of man."

His favorite poets were Horace and Pope; his chosen philosophers, Hobbes and Voltaire.

How these roots acquired their meanings is not known, but a conventional origin is clearly just as mythical as the social contract by which Hobbes and Rousseau supposed civil government to have been established.

O objetivo desse artigo e refletir sobre a pratica historiografica de Hobbes, que nao se via como historiador, mas que tinha a narrativa como veiculo de demonstracao da Ciencia civil, necessaria a vida em sociedade.

For Hobbes, we live in a brutal world, and it is for this reason that we must allow the sovereign to take total control of everything, even if it is at the expense of our freedoms.

In a rare coincidence, both Harriott and Hobbes will be heading to Harvard this Fall.