The theory of social contracts extends as far back as Plato. However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke,… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
“The beliefs and behaviour of the Restoration reflect the theories of society put forward by Thomas Hobbes in The Leviathan, which was… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
ANTI-ZIONISTS, last of all, exhibit a distaste for certain words. It was Thomas Hobbes who, anticipating semantics, pointed out that words are… — Milton Steinberg Copy Share Image
However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
Christians - at least Christians in a liberal democracy - have accepted, after Thomas Hobbes, that they must obey the secular rule… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
“one who, though he never digress to read a Lecture, Moral or Political, upon his own Text, nor enter into men’s hearts,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Thomas Hobbes's politics are fitted only to promote tyranny, and his ethics to encourage licentiousness.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Thomas Hobbes said that man is a wolve for anothe one. It seems to me that this became the basic foundation ideology… — Steinar Stjernø Copy Share Image
“One reason might be that if I hadn't tripped, I'd have been hamburger. When this sort of thing occurs, people often say… — Paul Quarrington Copy Share Image
“As Thomas Hobbes observed in the 17th century, life under mob rule is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. Life on a… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
