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Hobbes, Thomas
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An English philosopher, psychologist, and moralist, born at Malmesbury; was educated at Oxford; connected all his days with the Cavendish family, with members of which he travelled on the Continent, and was on friendly terms with Charles II., Bacon, Descartes, &c.; translated Thucydides, wrote a number of works, "De Cive" among others, and the "Leviathan," all more or less leading up to the doctrine that the absolute sovereign power in all matters of right and wrong is vested in the State as the achieved fact of the emancipation of the race from savagery (1588-1679).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Hobbes, Thomas'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/h/hobbes-thomas.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Hobbes, Thomas'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/h/hobbes-thomas.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
