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The tiger in the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip is named after Thomas Hobbes.Thomas Hobbes = English materialist and political philosopher who advocated absolute sovereignty (1588-1679)
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So, to invite forty-six leaders of a political party to dine around the periphery of an extended U without a seating arrangement was to risk a certain amount of disorder.... Thomas Hobbes, no doubt, would have likened the situation to "Man in a State of Nature" and would have counseled one to expect a scuffle.† (source)
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Thomas Hobbes is often quoted as having said that life is nasty, brutish, and short, and surely it must have seemed so to Danny Hansford during the last fifteen or twenty seconds of his life, while his life was oozing out onto Jim Williams's Persian rug.† (source)
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Perhaps the most influential was the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes.† (source)
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He delighted in the robust common sense of Thomas Hobbes; Spinoza filled him with awe, he had never before come in contact with a mind so noble, so unapproachable and austere; it reminded him of that statue by Rodin, L'Age d'Airain, which he passionately admired; and then there was Hume: the scepticism of that charming philosopher touched a kindred note in Philip; and, revelling in the lucid style which seemed able to put complicated thought into simple words, musical and measured, he read as he might have read a novel, a smile of pleasure on his lips.† (source)
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1651 LEVIATHAN by Thomas Hobbes LEVIATHAN OR THE MATTER, FORME, & POWER OF A COMMON-WEALTH ECCLESIASTICAL AND CIVILL By Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury.† (source)
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1651 LEVIATHAN by Thomas Hobbes LEVIATHAN OR THE MATTER, FORME, & POWER OF A COMMON-WEALTH ECCLESIASTICAL AND CIVILL By Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury.† (source)Thomas Hobbes = English materialist and political philosopher who advocated absolute sovereignty (1588-1679)
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If notwithstanding this, you find my labour generally decryed, you may be pleased to excuse your selfe, and say that I am a man that love my own opinions, and think all true I say, that I honoured your Brother, and honour you, and have presum'd on that, to assume the Title (without your knowledge) of being, as I am, Sir, Your most humble, and most obedient servant, Thomas Hobbes.† (source)
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