Thomas Hobbes invented the modern ego – the ego that thinks it exists quite on its own. He did this by declaring, in his Leviathan, that the natural state of human life was one of ceaseless "war of ...

Thomas Hobbes’s political philosophy rests on a materialist anthropology that views humans as driven by self-interest, fear of death and the desire for power. In the absence of a common authority, he ...

No man can have in his mind a conception of the future, for the future is not yet. But of our conceptions of the past, we make a future; or rather, call past, future relatively. Thus after a man hath ...

What, actually, is the moral of all this social atomism – this isolation of human beings from one another which I've been suggesting is Thomas Hobbes's central theme in Leviathan? How does it tell us ...

Thomas Hobbes professed the most surprising beliefs about God. God is corporeal he declares. He says this while calmly drawing attention to the first of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of ...

Hobbes has been called, with some justice, the father of modern analytic philosophy, and he certainly ushered in modern political philosophy and social theory as we know it (National Portrait Gallery) ...