The Philosophy of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Richard H. Popkin

Author:Richard H. Popkin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 1966-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

XI HOBBES

THOMAS HOBBES (1588-1679) was born at Malmesbury, England, just as the Spanish Armada was approaching. He studied at Oxford and then became tutor to the young Earl of Devonshire. He traveled widely, worked on a translation of the Greek historian, Thucydides, and studied geometry and optics. From 1634-1637, he lived in Paris, was part of Mersenne’s circle, and began writing. From 1640 to 1651, he was in exile in Paris for his political views, and, during this period, he wrote his objections to Descartes (1640-1641), De Cive (1642), and the Leviathan (from which the following selections are taken). He returned to England in 1651 under Cromwell and was later reluctantly accepted by Charles II (whose tutor he had been in France). He was engaged in political, religious, mathematical, and philosophical polemics until the end of his life.

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