Thomas Hobbes invented the modern ego – the ego that thinks it exists quite on its own. He did this by declaring, in his Leviathan, that the natural state of human life was one of ceaseless "war of ...

As I remarked in my last essay, Darwin gave an account of our species's muddled and conflict-ridden sociability in his Descent Of Man which is far more realistic and convincing than those of the ...

Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan. Edited by Noel Malcolm. Oxford University Press; 1,832 pages; $375 and £195. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk WHEN Thomas Hobbes was maths tutor to the future English king, ...

A NEW blog on public policy, reform and the fate of the Big Society might as well start with a presumption, and there is none greater than taking its title from Thomas Hobbes's "Leviathan", described ...

Many thoughtful observers—including here at TAC—have warned that civil liberties, and perhaps freedom itself, could fall victim to the coronavirus. They have a point, but on the other hand, there’s a ...

Zvyagintsev’s film poses uncomfortable questions about the relationship between people and the state as defined by Thomas Hobbes’s 1651 work of the same name. The frontispiece of the book Leviathan by ...

Thomas Hobbes professed the most surprising beliefs about God. God is corporeal he declares. He says this while calmly drawing attention to the first of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of ...

Hobbes has been called, with some justice, the father of modern analytic philosophy, and he certainly ushered in modern political philosophy and social theory as we know it (National Portrait Gallery) ...

The philosopher Thomas Hobbes is now a good deal more popular than he once was. When his "Leviathan" appeared in 1651 it was denounced everywhere. England's King's Charles II, a believer in the divine ...