Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher born in 1588 in London. He studied at Oxford University where he showed talent in Latin and Greek. After leaving Oxford in 1608, he worked as a tutor for aristocratic families, traveling across Europe. His most influential work was Leviathan, published in 1651, where he argued that humans in a state of nature would be in a constant state of war, requiring a social contract and strong central government to maintain peace and order. Hobbes believed humans were primarily self-interested and that fear was a major motivating factor. He died in 1679 at the age of 91.

1. Enlightenment
Thinker :

3. Thomas Hobbes
• Isinilang sa London
• Noong Abril 05, 1588
• Ang kanyang ama ay may
katungkulan sa parokya
• Ang kanyang tiyuhin ay
isang mangangalakal

4. • Ang kanyang tiyuhin ang nagpaaral sa kanya
• Nagpunta siya sa Magdalen Hall sa Oxford
England para mag-aral
Sa edad na labing apat
• Siya ay magaling na estudyante ng
Latin at Griyego

5. • Nilisan niya ang Oxford noong 1608
• At naging pribadong guro para sa panganay
na anak ni Lord Cavendish Hardwick
o Earl of Devonshire
• Siya ay naglakbay kasama ang kanyang
estudyante noong 1610 sa France, Germany, Italy
• Nagtungo siya sa London para ipagpatuloy ang
kanyang pag-aaral

7. •Kung saan nakilala niya sina :
 Francis Bacon
 Herbert of Cherbury
 Ben Johnson
•Si Hobbes ay konektado pa rin sa pamilyang Cavendish
•1628, namatay ang anak ni Cavendish
• Pero bumalik siya para turuan ang isang anak ni
Cavendish

8. • Noong 1629, isinalin niya ng “Thucydides”
• 1630, “Short Tract on Firt Pricipless”
• Mula 1634-1637, Bumalik siya kasama ang
kanyang estudyante
• Sa Paris, nilaan niy ang oras niya asama
Mersenne, Descartes, Gassendi sa Florence at si
Galileo

9. • Noong bumalik siya sa
England isinulat niya ang
“Elements of Law
Natural and Politic”
• Ang unang labing tatlong
tsapter ay inilimbag noong
1650 na may pamagat na
“Human Nature”
• At ang natirang gawa
niya ay pinamagatang
“De Corpore Politico”

10. • 1640, Pumunta siya France at namalagi ng
labing isang taon doon
•Siya’y nagplano para sa kanyang pilosopiya
na may tatlong anyo :
-Matter/body
-Human nature
-Society

11. • “De Cive” nailathala noong 1642 sa Paris

12. •“Philosophical Rudiments Concerning
Government and Society”

13. • 1651, Bumalik siya sa
England
• LEVIATHAN
- pinaka kontrobersyal na
gawa ni Hobbes
• solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.“
•1656, “The Questions Concerning Liberty,
Necessily and Chance”
• 1655, “De Corpore” at 1656, “De Homine”

14. -Leviathan

15. • 1668, Nailathala sa Amsterdam ang
Leviathan
• 1668, “Dialogue between a Philosopher and
a Student of the Common Laws of England
• May mga gawa siya na hindi pa nailalathala
tulad ng “Heresy at Behemoth”
-History of the Causes of the
Civil War of England

17. • Patuloy siyang nagsulat , At isinulat niya ang kanyang
buhay sa Latin sa edad na walong pu’t apat
• Isinalin din niya ang “Iliad and the Odyssey”
• 1675, Nilisan niya ang London. Sa huling
pagkakataon tumira siya sa pamilyang Cavendish
sa Derbyshire
• Si Hobbes ay namatay noong Disyembre 4, 1679
sa Hardwick

18. Abril 05, 1588-Disyembre 4, 1679

19. Mga Tanyag
na Linya ni
Thomas Hobbes

20.  “A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them
that assault him by force, to take away his life.”
 “A man's conscience and his judgment is the same
thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience,
may be erroneous.”
 “A wise man should so write (though in words
understood by all men) that wise men only should be
able to commend him.”
 “All generous minds have a horror of what are
commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts
of the intellectual domain.”
 “Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”

21.  “During the time men live without a common power
to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions
called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against
every man.”
 “Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that
which everyone in himself calleth religion.”
 “Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal
virtues.”
 “He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not
conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.”
 “I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in
the dark.”

22.  “I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a
perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that
ceaseth only in death.”
 “In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.”
“It is not wisdom but authority that makes law”
 “Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising
from some sudden conception of some eminency in
ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others,
or with our own formerly.”
 “Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.”

23.  “No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him
to persist in it.”
 “Not believing in force is the same as not believing in
gravitation.”
 “Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally
bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply
themselves unto.”
 “Science is the knowledge of consequences, and
dependence of one fact upon another.”
 “Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may
acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more
eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe
there be many so wise as themselves.”

25. References :
• Stumpf, Samuel Enoch, Philosophy: History and Problems, (United States: Mc
Graw-Hill Inc, 1971), 224-234
• http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/nature/hobbes-bio.html
• http://www.egs.edu/library/thomas-hobbes/biography/
• http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061116162655AAeIMyj
• http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_
hobbes.html#APUfcpdg6hYSAqiS.99
•.google.com/site/lockevshobbeswhowillwin/home/who-was-john-locke/john-
lockes-ideas/who-was-thomas-hobbes

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