Thomas Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes Thomas Hobbes was an English political philosopher whose Leviathan (1651) articulated a social contract theory grounded in his pessimistic view of human nature: that life in the "state of nature" would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." He argued that rational individuals would surrender freedoms to a sovereign authority in exchange for security and order, making him the founder of social contract theory and a key precursor to modern political science. His materialist philosophy and secular analysis of political power placed him in frequent conflict with Church authorities.
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Thomas Hobbes 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. He is considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy.
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