Thomas+Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes
by: Rachel Jost, Allison Schooling, Mike Cianciolo

**__Basic Information__**

 * ====Lived April 5, 1588 - December 4, 1679====
 * ====English political philosopher====

**__What he believed__**

 * ====Believed in the natural equality of man====
 * ====Helped develop The Social Contract Theory in the 17th century====
 * ====His Social Contract said that if humans stayed in a state of nature that there would be a rise in war with every man.====
 * ====His philosophy is the most complete materialist philosophy of the 17th century====

__**Quotes**__

 * ====“ Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. ” From his book __Leviathan__====
 * ===="Men in a state of nature, that is a state without civil government, are in a war of all against all in which life is hardly worth living." People need a government to keep them civil and humane, but not a government so harsh that it controls their every move.====

**__Sources__**

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 * ====//We the people: the citizen & the Constitution.//. Washington DC: Center For Civic Education, 2009. Print.====