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    Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher born in 1588 who is best known for his political philosophy articulated in his masterwork Leviathan. Hobbes viewed government as necessary to ensure collective security and justified its authority through a hypothetical social contract where people vest power in a sovereign to ensure safety. Hobbes also made significant contributions to scientific thought by presenting all phenomena as the effects of matter in motion and systematizing the findings of thinkers like Galileo. His political philosophy justified broad government powers based on citizens' self-interested consent.

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    Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher born in 1588 who is best known for his political philosophy articulated in his masterwork Leviathan. Hobbes viewed government as necessary to ensure collective security and justified its authority through a hypothetical social contract where people vest power in a sovereign to ensure safety. Hobbes also made significant contributions to scientific thought by presenting all phenomena as the effects of matter in motion and systematizing the findings of thinkers like Galileo. His political philosophy justified broad government powers based on citizens' self-interested consent.

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    Name: Alondra Mae P. Menzon Teacher: Carlos Marcelo, M.A.Ed.

    Grade & Section: 12-RIEMANN Date: October 03,2018

    Thomas Hobbes
    English philosopher and political theorist

    The English philosopher and political theorist Thomas Hobbes was one of the central
    figures of political thought behind the British Empire. His major work, "Leviathan,"
    published in 1651, expressed his idea that basic human motives are selfish.

    Thomas Hobbes.

    Thomas Hobbes, (born April 5, 1588, Westport, Wiltshire, England—died December 4,


    1679, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire), English philosopher, scientist, and historian, best
    known for his political philosophy, especially as articulatedin his
    masterpiece Leviathan (1651). Hobbes viewed government primarily as a device for
    ensuring collective security. Political authority is justified by a hypothetical social
    contract among the many that vests in a sovereign person or entity the responsibility
    for the safety and well-being of all. In metaphysics, Hobbes defended materialism, the
    view that only material things are real. His scientific writings present all observed
    phenomena as the effects of matter in motion. Hobbes was not only a scientist in his
    own right but a great systematizer of the scientific findings of his contemporaries,
    including Galileoand Johannes Kepler. His enduring contribution is as a political
    philosopher who justified wide-ranging government powers on the basis of the self-
    interested consent of citizens.

    Childhood
    Born prematurely on April 5, 1588, when his mother heard of the coming invasion of
    the Spanish Armada (a fleet of Spanish warships), Thomas Hobbes later reported that
    "my mother gave birth to twins: myself and fear." His father, also named Thomas
    Hobbes, was the vicar (a clergyman in charge of a church) of Westport near
    Malmesbury in Gloucestershire, England. After being involved in a fight with another
    clergyman outside his own church, the elder Thomas Hobbes was forced to flee to
    London, England, leaving his wife, two boys and a girl behind.
    Thomas was then raised and educated by an uncle and studied at the local schools. By
    the age of six he was studying Latin and Greek. Also at this time, Hobbes became
    absorbed in the classic literature of ancient Greece. From 1603 to 1608 he studied at
    Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was bored by the philosophy of Aristotelianism
    (studying the works of Aristotle, a fourth-century B.C.E. Greek philosopher).

    His philosophy
    The questions Hobbes posed to the world in the seventeenth century are still relevant
    today, and Hobbes still maintains a strong influence in the world of philosophy. He
    challenged the relationship between science and religion, and the natural limitations of
    political power.
    The diverse intellectual paths of the seventeenth century, which are generically called
    modern classical philosophy, began by rejecting authorities of the past—especially
    Aristotle and his peers. Descartes, who founded the rationalist tradition, and Sir Francis
    Bacon (1561–1626), who is considered the originator of modern empiricism (political
    theory regarding the British Empire), both sought new methods for achieving scientific
    knowledge and a clear conception of reality.
    Hobbes was fascinated by the problem of sense perception, and he extended Galileo's
    (1564–1642) mechanical physics into an explanation of human cognition (process of
    learning). He believed the origin of all thought is sensation, which consists of mental
    images produced by the pressure of motion of external objects. Thus Hobbes
    anticipated later thought by explaining differences between the external object and the
    internal image. These sense images are extended by the power of memory and
    imagination. Understanding and reason, which distinguish men from other animals, are
    a product of our ability to use speech.

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