Though he had already written a summary of Aristotle's Rhetoric in Latin and later wrote about logic, Hobbes would probably deserve no more than a footnote in the history of rhetoric if he had not published Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, and Power of...

Thomas Hobbes lived for ninety-one of the most eventful years in the history of England. Born in the year of England's defeat of the Spanish Armada, he fled to France during the civil war, fled back just before the Restoration, lived through the Great...

The most influential English philosopher before John Locke, was a founder of modern political science. One of his greatest achievements lay in freeing morality and politics from subservience to theology. Hobbes's metaphysical system is a thoroughgoing...

The English philosopher and political theorist Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was one of the central figures of British empiricism. His major work, "Leviathan," published in 1651, expressed his principle of materialism and his concept of a social contract...

The English philosopher and political theorist Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was one of the central figures of British empiricism. His major work, "Leviathan," published in 1651, expressed his principle of materialism and his concept of a social contract...