Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes




Thomas Hobbes was born April 5, 1588 in Westpoint, Malmesbury. Hobbes lived a leisured and sheltered life as a child. Jos edicatopm was provided for by a uncle, a solid tradesman and alderman of Malmesbury. By the age of fifteen he was already a good Latin and Greek scholar.
He was one of the first modern Western thinkers to provide a secular justification for the political state. Hobbes laid the foundations of modern sociology by applying mechanistic principles in an attempt to explain human motivation and social organization.
In the Leviathan, Hobbes develope...