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Thomas Hobbes
__About Me__ I was born on April 5, 1588 in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England. I got my bachelor's degree from Magdalen Hall, Oxford in 1608. In 1610 I went on my first trip to the continent. I talked to Francis Bacon. I traveled to the continent with Clinton's son and discovered that I liked geometry and thought about how to use geometrical method with my social and political principles.

I took my third 1637 journey to the continent where I entered the intellectual circle of the Abbe Mersenne. I met Descartes and Gassendi, and became friends with Gassendi. When I was 48 I went to Italy and met Galileo. I published many books and love to write.

When I was 59 I got very sick and almost died but I recovered. I got into a publishing war with an other author named Bramall in my late 60’s. Bramall died a few years after that. In 1666 the king wouldn’t let me publish anymore of my works. I died December 4 at Hardwick Hall.

__Quotes__
I was also known for my quotes as well. Some of them would be........

1. A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

2. A man's conscience and his judgement is the same thing; and as the judgement, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

3. All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

4. Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

5. Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

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=[|Thomas Hobbes]=

I wrote that matter and motion are the only valid subjects for philosophy.

Some of my major ideas were that I believed that the only true way to escape chaos was to give up their freedom towards peace governed by one ruler. In this way I thought that people could not rebel even if they thought the ruler was a tyrant. I also believed people were selfish.

[|Hobbes's Moral and Political Philosophy]

I’m famous for my early and elaborate development of what has come to be known as “social contract theory”, the method of justifying political principles or arrangements by appeal to the agreement that would be made among suitably situated rational, free, and equal persons. [|Thomas Hobbes] I also believed that understanding the psychology of individuals was necessary before one could develop an understanding of the state and government. I believed that humans were fearful and predatory, and must submit completely to the supremacy of the state in both secular and religious concerns. I also believed that the mental processes were the result of the motion of brain atoms activated by motions in the external world. I clearly stated the principle of association of ideas in terms of temporal sequences or "trains" of thought, "coherence". [|Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)] My main concern is the problem of social and political order: how human beings can live together in peace and avoid the danger and fear of civil conflict.

=__Friends__=

John Locke Francis Bacon Voltaire Jean Jaques Rousseau