Thomas hobbes

"Anyone who knows that 2 x 2 = 5 knows too much. Machiavelli already knew too much, but with Hobbes this became life-threatening, because he knew that any knowledge is too much." ~ Carl Schmitt

Thomas Hobbes’s essay on the social contract is both a founding text of western thought and a masterpiece of wit and imagination

Discovered in the British Library, a secret letter written by philosopher Thomas Hobbes in 1643 could have turned the tides of one of England's bloodiest wars.

The End of History and the Last Man is a book of history and political science written by Francis Fukuyma. It originally was expanded from an essay in the National Interest which appeared in 1989. …

What would life be like with no state, no government, no authority? Where do rights come from? Here are the accounts of philosophers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.

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Thomas Hobbes (a grand trine involving the Moon) claims that “every man by natural necessity desires that which is good for him…” But this rule may not hold in all cases. With a severely afflicted Moon instincts can be either contaminated with strange contents or, in severest cases, thwarted or blocked out. With, for instance, a Moon-Pluto conjunction or opposition ...

Fundamental things apply in a time of crisis.

Hobbes thought that man, free of all authority, would resort to a 'state of nature': a bitter struggle for resources, resulting in a 'short nasty and brutish' existence. To avoid this bleak state, we...