Person1588 – 1679
Thomas Hobbes
Also called: Hobbes
English philosopher whose Leviathan held that people hand their rights to a sovereign by contract to end the “war of all against all”
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Hobbes in Leviathan (1651) and Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1690) argued that the state arises from a contract among the people. Hobbes drew from it a strong sovereign; Locke, natural rights and a right of resistance.
People who appear alongside
- John Locke1632 – 1704
English philosopher whose Two Treatises of Government defended natural rights and the right of resistance, justifying the Glorious Revolution; he also systematised empiricism
Themes this person appears in
- Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment and the English Revolutions1543 – 1796
The Scientific Revolution from Copernicus to Newton, parliamentary government in England won through the Puritan and Glorious Revolutions, and the Enlightenment that sought to remake society by reason — the groundwork of the civic revolutions and the Industrial Revolution