Tuesday, March 18, 2014

The worst criminal of all time


     He was Born 5 April 1588 Westport near Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England.  He Died on 4 December 1679,(aged 91) in Derbyshire, England
     He was credited with some (hate) early 17th-century (only western) philosophy (Modern Philosophy)
Region Western Philosophers School Social contract, classical realism, empiricism, materialism, ethical egoism Main interests Political philosophy, history, ethics, geometry
     Notable ideas Modern founder of the social contract tradition; life in the state of nature is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short".  Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679), in some older texts Thomas Hobbes of Malmsbury, was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy. His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory.
     Hobbes was a champion of absolutism for the sovereign, but he also developed some of the fundamentals of European liberal thought: the right of the individual; the natural equality of all men; the artificial character of the political order (which led to the later distinction between civil society and the state); the view that all legitimate political power must be "representative" and based on the consent of the people; and a liberal interpretation of law which leaves people free to do whatever the law does not explicitly forbid.
     He was one of the founders of the artificial character of the modern political philosophy. His understanding of humans as being matter and motion, obeying the same physical laws as other matter and motion, remains influential; and his account of human nature as self-interested cooperation, and of political communities as being based upon a "social contract" remains one of the major topics of political philosophy.
In addition to political philosophy, Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of other fields, including history, geometry, the physics of gases, theology, ethics, and general philosophy.

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