Hobbes

How To Use Hobbes In A Sentence

• Furthermore, More attempted to answer materialists like Thomas Hobbes whom he perceived as an atheist on account of his dismissal of the idea of incorporeal substance as non-sensical. The Cambridge Platonists
• Hobbes's idea of a natural religion can fairly be described as deist, and his blend of deism and civil religion was to prove prophetic of much Enlightenment thinking.
• Thomas Hobbes is a highly controversial scholar in philosophical history.
• Thomas Hobbes wrote on his bedsheets, and when those were full he "scrawled on his thighs"; Voltaire is said to have used his naked mistress's back for a desk. Literary Life
• The expansibility of the state by the dimension of its authority so clearly implied in the curious flexibility of the rigorous Hobbes, was precisely stated by his follower, Samuel Pufendorf, in his correlative concepts of the ruler's “imperfect rights” and the subject's “im - perfect obligations” (Pufendorf, II, 289). AUTHORITY
• These accounts portray life behind bars as a cruel twist on the Hobbesian description of life: nasty, brutish and long.
• Voluntarism and covenant theology together constitute Hobbes' conceptualization of sovereign.
• As a philosopher he was inspired by Descartes, Spinoza, and Hobbes, but broke away from Descartes's mechanical conception of the universe.
• Hobbes was a gifted classical scholar.
• First, it isn't Hobbes's view that the relation between states is characterised as involving a ‘clubbable’ social life, unless we're punning on ‘club’.