Thomas Hobbes

1588 - 1679

Titles on this disk:

• author: British Moralists, being Selections from Writers principally of the Eighteenth Century, vol. 2
• author: The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, vol. 3 (Leviathan)
• author: The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, vol. 6 (Dialogue, Behemoth, Rhetoric)
• translator: The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, vol. 8 (Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War Part I)
• translator: The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, vol. 9 (Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War Part II)
• translator: The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, vol. 10 (Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey)
• author: Leviathan (1909 ed)

Quotation:

• (7 February, 2005) Thomas Hobbes sings a hymn of praise for Reason as “the pace”, scientific knowledge is “the way”, and the benefit of mankind is “the end” (1651)

About this person:

Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher who lived during the English Revolution. He is most famous for his work of political philosophy The Leviathan.