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Torna il capolavoro del filosofo inglese uscito a Londra nel 1651. La prima opera politica dell età moderna che attua una rivoluzione newtoniana del vivere civile Nella parte superiore si erge un ...
Il filosofo Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) lesse molto, vista la lunghezza della sua vita, però la sua riflessione era molto maggiore delle sue letture. Soleva dire che se avesse letto tanto quanto gli ...
Thomas Hobbes (/ hɒbz / HOBZ; 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) [a] was an English philosopher and political theorist, best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. [4] He is considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. [5][6] In his early life, overshadowed by his father's departure following a fight ...
Thomas Hobbes, English political philosopher best known for his masterpiece Leviathan (1651) and his contribution to social contract theory. He viewed government primarily as a device for ensuring collective security and justified wide-ranging government powers on the basis of the self-interested consent of citizens.
Because Hobbes held that “the true doctrine of the Lawes of Nature is the true Morall philosophie”, differences in interpretation of Hobbes’s moral philosophy can be traced to differing understandings of the status and operation of Hobbes’s “laws of nature”, which laws will be discussed below.
Thomas Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is best known for his political thought, and deservedly so. His vision of the world is strikingly original and still relevant to contemporary politics. His main concern is the problem of social and political order: how human beings can live together in peace and avoid the danger and fear of civil ...