Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes

English materialist and political philosopher who advocated absolute sovereignty as the only kind of government that could resolve problems caused by the selfishness of human beings (1588-1679)

1588-04-05
1679-12-04
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Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

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Georg Büchner Preis 1971

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