Thomas Hobbes

Author profile

born

April 05, 1588 in Westport, now part of Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England, The United Kingdom

died

December 04, 1679

website

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hobbes/

genre

Philosophy, History, Politics

influences

Aristotle, Descartes, Machiavelli, Thucydides, Hugo Grotius

About this author

edit data

Thomas Hobbes was a British philosopher and a seminal thinker of modern political philosophy. His ideas were marked by a mechanistic materialist foundation, a characterization of human nature based on greed and fear of death, and support for an absolute monarchical form of government. His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory.

He was also a scholar of classical Greek history and literature, and produced English translation of Illiad, Odyssey and History of Peloponnesian War.

combine editions
Books by Thomas Hobbes

Average rating: 3.67 · 9,610 ratings · 382 reviews · 123 distinct works

	Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes, C.B. MacPherson (Editor, Introduction) 3.49 avg rating — 6,240 ratings — published 1651 — 129 editions	My rating:
	Hobbes: On the Citizen 3.67 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1949 — 19 editions	My rating:
	The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic: Part I: Human Nature; Part II: de Corpore Politico with Three Lives by Thomas Hobbes, J.C. Gaskin (Editor) 3.80 avg rating — 50 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Behemoth or The Long Parliament by Thomas Hobbes, Stephen T. Holmes (Introduction) 4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1964 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Man and Citizen: de Homine and de Cive 3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Of Man 3.54 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Thucydides by Thomas Hobbes, Thucydides 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England by Thomas Hobbes, Joseph Cropsey (Editor) 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1971 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The English Works Of Thomas Hobbes Of Malmesbury. Now First Collected And Ed. By Sir William Molesworth. Volume 10. The Illiads, And Odysses Of Homer, Tr. By T. Hobbes 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings	My rating:
	The Metaphysical System of Hobbes in Twelve Chapters from His Elements of Philosophy Concerning Body, Together with Briefer Extracts from His Human Na 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions	My rating:

More books by Thomas Hobbes…

Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

“Curiosity is the lust of the mind”
― Thomas Hobbes

tags: life-lessons , mistakes

84 people liked it

“Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry... no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
― Thomas Hobbes

19 people liked it

“The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone”
― Thomas Hobbes

9 people liked it

See all Thomas Hobbes's quotes »

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
The Book Challenge: Samantha's 2008 Book Challenge	35	112	Dec 30, 2008 11:29pm
The History Book ...: 6. MY LIFE ~~ July 18th - July 24th ~~ Chapters FIFTEEN, SIXTEEN and SEVENTEEN (146- 201); No Spoilers Please	45	21	Aug 14, 2011 03:57pm
The History Book ...: MY LIFE - BOOKS CLINTON READ	27	25	Oct 24, 2011 07:24am
Gigi's Company: ABC	1085	324	15 hours, 26 min ago

More…

Thomas's Fans (36)

Thomas Hobbes

Author profile

combine editionsBooks by Thomas Hobbes

Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

Topics Mentioning This Author

combine editions
Books by Thomas Hobbes