Thomas Hobbes (Ethics (Ready Reference series))
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Hobbes was a proponent of natural rights and monarchical absolutism, although he was distrusted by both Cromwellian republicans and supporters of the Stuart monarchy. As a student at Magdalen College, Oxford University, Hobbes rejected the ethics and methodological perspectives of Aristotelianism, medieval Scholasticism, and Christian philosophy. The moral political philosophy expressed in Hobbes’s works was grounded in the methodology of mathematical argumentation, empirical science, and secularism. Hobbes’s mechanistic and materialist explanation of...
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