Enlightenment Thinker :

Thomas Hobbes• Isinilang sa London

• Noong Abril 05, 1588

• Ang kanyang ama ay may katungkulan sa parokya

• Ang kanyang tiyuhin ay isang mangangalakal

• 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

• 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

•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

• 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

• 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”

• 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

• “De Cive” nailathala noong 1642 sa Paris

•“Philosophical Rudiments Concerning Government and Society”

• 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”

-Leviathan

• 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

• 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

Abril 05, 1588 -Disyembre 4, 1679

Mga Tanyag na Linya niThomas Hobbes

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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