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HOBBES

The first modern materialist

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was born prematurely because his mother panicked when she heard that the Spanish Armada was approaching. “Fear and I were born twins,” he used to say, referring to his own anxious personality. In spite of it, though, he was a trenchant and aggressive writer, and an exceptionally independent thinker Page 75

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. . . As in Hobbes’ account of the social contract what has to be explained is how the transition can hae been made from a condition in which the transition can hae been made from a condition in which the relations between men are purely those of force, in which each seeks to impose his own will on other, to a condition in which there are socially established norms and institutions which regulate human behaviour in an impersonal fashion. The stages by which this transition is made are not the same as in Hobbes’ account; they are guilt, the establishment of taboos, and then the making of a social contract. But each one of these presupposes the prior existence and functioning of just those social norms and institutions the origin of which they are to explain. ~ page 52

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. . . Among the most inventive solutions were those adopted by the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, who both found ways of outsourcing the housing of their working collection. Hobbes spent much of life in the service of the Cavendish family of the Earl of Newcastle, successively as tutor, family adviser, librarian and elderly retainer, an arrangement that worked for all parties. Hobbes brought intellectual kudos to his aristocratic hosts, who built a substantial library of 2,000 books for Hobbe’s use in their house at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire. . . . . Page 137

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