Geburtsdatum | Dienstag, 05. April 1588 |
Geburtsort | Westport |
Todesdatum | Montag, 04. Dezember 1679 |
Todesort | Derbyshire |
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Beschreibung | Thomas Hobbes [hɔbz] (5. April 1588 in Westport, Wiltshire – 4. Dezember 1679 in Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire) war ein englischer Mathematiker, Staatstheoretiker und Philosoph. Er wurde durch sein Hauptwerk Leviathan bekannt, in dem er eine Theorie des Absolutismus entwickelte. Er gilt als Begründer des „aufgeklärten Absolutismus“. Des Weiteren ist er neben John Locke und Jean-Jacques Rousseau einer der bedeutendsten Theoretiker des sogenannten Gesellschaftsvertrags. |
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
The disembodied spirit is immortal there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
