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Hobbes

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Hobbes
Thomas. 1588--1679, English political philosopher. His greatest work is the Leviathan (1651), which contains his defence of absolute sovereignty


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He would make a good secretary, now, like Hobbes, Milton, Swift--that sort of man.
His favorite poets were Horace and Pope; his chosen philosophers, Hobbes and Voltaire.
How these roots acquired their meanings is not known, but a conventional origin is clearly just as mythical as the social contract by which Hobbes and Rousseau supposed civil government to have been established.
 
 
 
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