Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
	after John Michael Wright (1617–1694)
Era	17th-century philosophy; (Modern Philosophy)
Region	Western Philosophers
School	Social contract, realism
Main interests	Political philosophy, history, ethics, geometry
Notable ideas	modern founder of the social contract tradition; life in the state of nature is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short"
	Influences Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides, Tacitus, Galileo, Niccolò Machiavelli, René Descartes, Grotius, Selden, Great Tew circle;
	Influenced Joseph Butler; All subsequent Western political philosophy; sociology: Ferdinand Tönnies;

Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was a philosopher from England. His most famous book is Leviathan (1651).

Thomas Hobbes
after John Michael Wright (1617–1694)

Era	17th-century philosophy (Modern Philosophy)
Region	Western Philosophers
School	Social contract, realism
Main interests	Political philosophy, history, ethics, geometry
Notable ideas	modern founder of the social contract tradition; life in the state of nature is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short"
Influences Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides, Tacitus, Galileo, Niccolò Machiavelli, René Descartes, Grotius, Selden, Great Tew circle
Influenced Joseph Butler; All subsequent Western political philosophy; sociology: Ferdinand Tönnies