Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes was born in Westport, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England on April 5th, 1588 and passed away at the age of 91 on December 4th, 1679.

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Thomas Hobbes Stats: The most read book by Thomas Hobbes on Book Notification is Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, a Non-Fiction book.

Below is a complete list of Thomas Hobbes books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series.

List of Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
1620
2
1637
3
1639
4
1640
5
1640
6
1641
7
1642
8
1646
9
1646
10
1647
11
1650
12
1650
13
1651
14
1651
15
1656
16
1656
17
1657
18
1658
19
1660
20
1661
21
1662
22
1662
23
1666
24
1666
25
1668
26
1671
27
1671
28
1672
29
1674
30
1678
31
1680
32
1681
33
Praefatio to Mersenni Ballistica (With: Marin Mersenne)
1944
34
1976
35
2023

List of Poetry in Publication Order

List of Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy Books in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Plato: The Symposium (By: M.C. Howatson, Frisbee Sheffield)
-380
2
Theaetetus/Sophist (By: Harold North Fowler, Francis Macdonald Cornford)
-370
3
Nicomachean Ethics (By: Roger Crisp)
-350
4
-350
5
Eudemian Ethics (By: Brad Inwood, Raphael Woolf)
-322
6
On Moral Ends (By: Julia Annas, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Raphael Woolf)
-45
7
Outlines of Scepticism (By: Jonathan Barnes, Julia Annas, Sextus Empiricus)
200
8
On the Trinity (By: Augustine of Hippo, Gareth B. Matthews, Stephen McKenna)
416
9
Cause, Principle and Unity and Essays on Magic (By: Giordano Bruno, Richard J. Blackwell, Alfonso Ingegno, Robert De Lucca)
1583
10
Francis Bacon: The New Organon (By: Lisa Jardine, Francis Bacon, Michael Silverthorne)
1620
11
1641
12
Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole: Logic or the Art of Thinking (By: Pierre Nicole, Antoine Arnauld, Jill Vance Buroker)
1662
13
1668
14
Tractatus Theologico-Politicus: Gebhardt Edition (By: Baruch Spinoza, Brad S. Gregory, Samuel Shirley, Maarten van Buuren)
1670
15
The Search after Truth (By: Nicolas Malebranche, Thomas M. Lennon)
1675
16
Spinoza: Ethics: Proved in Geometrical Order (By: Baruch Spinoza, Michael Silverthorne, Matthew Kisner)
1677
17
Malebranche: Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion (By: David Scott, Nicholas Jolley, Nicolas Malebranche)
1688
18
Locke on Toleration (By: Richard Vernon)
1689
19
Berkeley: Philosophical Writings (By: George Berkeley, Desmond M. Clarke)
1709
20
Shaftesbury: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (By: Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lawrence E. Klein)
1711
21
1731
22
1748
23
1759
24
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (By: Immanuel Kant, Robert B. Louden, Manfred Kühn)
1785
25
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (By: Immanuel Kant, Jens Timmermann, Mary J. Gregor, Christine M. Korsgaard)
1785
26
1786
27
Kant: Critique of Practical Reason (By: Immanuel Kant, Mary J. Gregor, Andrews Reath)
1788
28
Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation (By: Allen Wood, Garrett Green)
1792
29
1793
30
Novalis: Fichte Studies (By: Novalis, Jane Kneller)
1796
31
Foundations of Natural Right (By: Frederick Neuhouser, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Michael Baur)
1797
32
The Metaphysics of Morals (By: Immanuel Kant, Lara Denis, Mary J. Gregor)
1797
33
The System of Ethics (By: Daniel Breazeale, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Guenter Zöller)
1798
34
Schleiermacher: On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (By: Friedrich Schleiermacher, Richard E. Crouter)
1799
35
1825
36
On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany and Other Writings (By: Heinrich Heine, Terry P. Pinkard, Howard Pollack-Milgate)
1835
37
1836
38
Fear and Trembling (By: Søren Kierkegaard, Sylvia Walsh, C. Stephen Evans)
1843
39
1876
40
Daybreak (By: Brian Leiter, Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark)
1881
41
The Gay Science (By: Bernard Williams, Friedrich Nietzsche, Josefine Nauckhoff)
1882
42
1883
43
1886
44
The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy (By: Allison P. Coudert, Anne Conway, Taylor Corse)
1982
45
Orations on Philosophy and Education (By: Philipp Melanchthon, Christine F. Salazar, Sachiko Kusukawa)
1989
46
Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity (With: Vere C. Chappell, John Bramhall)
1995
47
La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings (By: Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Ann Thomson)
1996
48
A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature (By: Robert Boyle, Michael Hunter, Edward B. Davis)
1996
49
Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings (By: Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Moses Mendelssohn)
1997
50
1998
51
Herder: Philosophical Writings (By: Johann Gottfried Herder, Michael N. Forster)
1998
52
Schleiermacher: Hermeneutics and Criticism: And Other Writings (By: Friedrich Schleiermacher, Andrew Bowie)
1998
53
1999
54
Disputed Questions on the Virtues (By: Thomas Aquinas, E.M. Atkins, Thomas Williams)
1999
55
2000
56
2001
57
2001
58
Schleiermacher: Lectures on Philosophical Ethics (By: Friedrich Schleiermacher, Louise Adey Huish, Robert B. Louden)
2002
59
2002
60
2003
61
2003
62
Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings (By: Isaac Newton, Andrew Janiak)
2004
63
2004
64
Reinhold: Letters on the Kantian Philosophy (By: Karl P. Ameriks, James Hebbeler)
2005
65
Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings (By: Muhammad Ali Khalidi)
2005
66
2005
67
Summa Theologiae / Questions on God (By: Brian Davies, Thomas Aquinas, Brian Leftow)
2006
68
2006
69
Medieval Jewish Philosophical Writings (By: Charles Harry Manekin)
2007
70
2007
71
Greek and Roman Aesthetics (By: Oleg V. Bychkov, Anne Sheppard)
2010
72
2011
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Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes was born on April 5th, 1588. Thomas passed away December 4th, 1679 at 91 years old. Thomas Hobbes was born in Westport, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England. Hobbes attended St John's College, Cambridge where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree. He also attended Magdalen Hall, Oxford.

Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher, who is best known for his work Leviathan, in which he offered his pessimistic perspective on human nature. He believed that humanity lives very short and brutish lives and this situation can only be better by banding together and surrendering some of their freedoms to a strong political authority.

It was in 1608 that Hobbes began making some of the most critical connections that would make him into the man he would become. It was in that year that he began working for William Cavendish the statesman, even as he also worked on a range of translations of Greek texts including the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides.

Given his relationship with high-ranking English officials, he was a royalist during the English Civil War and had to live in exile in France to avoid his ecclesiastical, intellectual, and political enemies in England. It was while he was living in Paris that he wrote Elements of Law, his first philosophical work, which was published in 1650.

Hobbes published his magnum opus, Leviathan, in 1651. This would be the work that would have the most significant impact on political philosophy. The title of the work found inspiration in the Book of Job, which references a gigantic sea monster that he likened to the power of the state.

The work is concerned with the structure of legitimate government and society and is one of the most influential and earliest forms of the social contract. The classic work has many elements similar to another classic work The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli.

Penned during the English Civil War, the work argues that society should be ruled by an absolute sovereign who guarantees the social contract. According to Hobbes, the brute situation of humanity including civil wars could only be avoided by the presence of a strong centralized government.

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Thomas Hobbes: F.A.Q

When was Thomas Hobbes Born?

Thomas Hobbes was born on April 5th, 1588.

When did Thomas Hobbes die?

Thomas Hobbes died on December 4th, 1679 at 91 years old.

Where was Thomas Hobbes Born?

Thomas Hobbes was born in Westport, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England.

What was the first book Thomas Hobbes wrote?

The first book written by Thomas Hobbes was The Horae Subsecivae: Observation and Discourses, published in 1620.

What was the most recent book Thomas Hobbes wrote?

His most recently released work was De Corpore on November 3rd, 2023.

How many books has Thomas Hobbes written?

Thomas Hobbes has written 37 books. 35 books in the Non-Fiction Books, 1 book in the Poetry, 1 book in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy Series.

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