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OF MAN
HOBBES TH. wydawnictwo: PENGUIN , rok wydania 2005, wydanie I cena netto: 30.00 Twoja cena 28,50 zł + 5% vat - dodaj do koszyka Of Man
The founding father of modern political philosophy, Thomas Hobbes, living in an era of
horrific violence, saw human life as meaningless and cruel; here, he argues the only way
to escape this brutality is for all to accept a 'social contract' that acknowledges the
greater authority of a Sovereign leader.
Thomas Hobbes was born in Malmesbury in 1588. Entering Magdalen Hall,
Oxford, in 1603, he took his degree in 1608 and became tutor to the eldest son of Lord
Cavendish of Hardwick, afterwards the Earl of Devonshire; his connection with this family
was life-long. His first interest was in the classics, and his first published work a
translation of Thucydides, in 1628. An interest in science and philosophy soon developed,
heightened by extended travels in Europe in 1629-31 and 1634-7. This led to his great
project of a political science. His first verson of this, The Elements of Law, Natural and
Politic, was privately circulated in 1640, when Parliament was hotly disputing the king's
powers, and Hobbes fled to Paris, where he stayed for eleven years.
A second version, De Cive, was published in 1642, and the third, Leviathan - the
crowning achievement of his political science - in 1651. It was so influential that it
came under widespread attack and was in danger of condemnation by the House of Commons.
Hobbes perforce lived quietly and published little more on political matters. At the age
of eighty-four he composed an autobiography in Latin verse, and within the next three
years translated the whole of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad. He died at Hardwick in 1679.
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