If Hobbes is right about human nature, then he is wrong about the state as a solution. Ironically, his key arguments for the ...

Robin teaches political science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He is the author of Fear: the History of a Political Idea, [2] which aims to ...

When it comes to 17th-century English philosophers, Thomas Hobbes holds a lot of appeal. He wrote with vivid prose, rich argument and a stinging wit. He was also ahead of his time. Nearly 400 years ...

No man can have in his mind a conception of the future, for the future is not yet. But of our conceptions of the past, we make a future; or rather, call past, future relatively. Thus after a man hath ...

Thirty years ago, the comical adventures of a six-year-old boy named Calvin and his tiger best friend named Hobbes captivated readers. Named after theologian John Calvin and philosopher Thomas Hobbes ...

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By sneaking challenging questions into a comic strip, cartoonist Bill Watterson subtly prompts us to reexamine the world ...

Translated by Yashar Jeyrani, the book has been published by Now Publications in 332 pages, Mehr reported. “On the Citizen” is one of Thomas Hobbes's major works. The book was published originally in ...