Hobbes would probably have acknowledged the first part: he admitted to being a fearful type.
In the 17th century, philosophes like Robert Boyles and Thomas Hobbes began making lists of curious things.
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In the 1990s Dr Malcolm transformed the study of Hobbes by assembling and annotating his surviving correspondence.
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Hobbes believed that humans are driven to attack and prey on one another mainly by fear of uncertainty.
Nasty, brutish, and short, as her third husband had said, quoting Hobbes on the subject of natural man.
Policy makers have since Thomas Hobbes been attempting to drive down background risk.
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There were attacks on theologians, who, Hobbes maintained, claimed to know more about God than mortal minds could discover.
If Mr Menon thinks that international relations have evolved at all since the time of Hobbes, he does not admit it.
Interpreted as a metaphor rather than a literal account of events, there is a good deal of truth in Hobbes' story.
Hobbes also lobbied for a reduction in the power of the churches.
In Hobbes, for instance, envy and pride are the grand political problems.
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The studies of early altruism show that the natural state of man is not a war of all against all, as Thomas Hobbes said.
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Their past stabs at comic collections have included the meaty and exemplary The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (2005) and The Complete Far Side (2003).
Hobbes did not quite envision the full-dress decadence of contemporary times.
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These lines from Leviathan - Hobbes' best-known work and a masterpiece of English prose - have been read as meaning that humans are by nature violent animals.
Hobbes would warn that people will recoil against belonging to government when the government that owns them lacks the absolute natural and supernatural authority of the Leviathan.
Understandably, he destroyed many of his private papers, which is one reason why the life and work of Hobbes has long been such a tricky subject for scholars.
They are, to distort Hobbes, nice, unbrutish and all too short.
Under the shelter of strong government, humankind can enjoy "commodious living" - Hobbes' term for a civilised mode of life in which we can live and work together without fear.
Moved by a combination of reason and fear, Hobbes believed, human beings will contract with each other to create a sovereign - an absolute ruler who will prevent any slide into anarchy.
How did Hobbes make so many enemies?
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This isn't the only impulse that impels humans to be violent - Hobbes also mentions the desire for gain and the love of glory - but it is fundamental in his account of how they escape from violence.
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