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Continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
—The Leviathan. Part i. Chap. xviii.
Thomas
Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
 
1588–1679, English philosopher… In the Leviathan, Hobbes developed his political philosophy. He argued from a mechanistic view that life is simply the motions of the organism and that man is by nature a selfishly individualistic animal at constant war with all other men.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.)
 
Pronunciation:  hbz from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
 
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WORKS
 
Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan
The analogy of the physical body to the body politic. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXXIV, Part 5.
 
Bartlett’s Hobbes Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
 
Hobbes, Thomas, 28400 to 28490
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
 
 
WRITINGS ABOUT HOBBES
 
“Hobbes and Contemporary Philosophy”
Chapter with bibliography by W. R. Sorley from the Cambridge History of English Literature.
 
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