Thomas Hobbes

1588

He was born in England and he had a pretty long live, he died when he was 91, I think that was not really usual in those times. He was son of an Anglican pastor and he spent a lot of time in the Anglican aristocracy, we had really good basis on the classics and geometry but then he got into philosophy.

With the beginning of the Civil War he refuged in France where he started his major works in philosophy, he thought the anarchy was the worst thing that can happen to a society, and that the politic should have a strong government and an authoritarian regime.

One of his most remarcable works was the Leviathan, a big water monster from the Bible which he compared to the state, that it is monstruos but still protect us from the Vemot (civil war), he also believed in sovereignty, laws and justice.

He had a realistic view so he just believed in the existence of bodies which where divided in natural and social, and the last one divided into ethics and politics

He also considered the  Life of nature a big problem for the society because it comes from the stone age where the people where primitive, solitary, poor and brutal.

The laws come from agreements between people, to keep an order and stop confronting one another and he also said that the strong people can impose to the rest, so he stated that a soberan who rules a society can't fail to the society but his decitions are not questionable, and every subdits is free, there is equality and justice.

He was also really pessimistic, he compared the man to wolves, but we can defeat the anger and our problems to live with harmony.

"Fear and I were born twins together"