Leviathan -- Thomas Hobbes - Paperback
Author: Thomas Hobbes
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 10/10/2017
Pages: 688
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780141395098
About the Author
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was born in Malmesbury. Entering Magdalen Hall, Oxford, in 1603, he took his degree in 1608 and became tutor to the eldest son of Lord Cavendish of Hardwick, afterwards the Earl of Devonshire; his connection with this family was life-long. His first interest was in the classics, and his first published work a translation of Thucydides, in 1628. An interest in science and philosophy soon developed, heightened by extended travels in Europe in 1629-31 and 1634-37. This led to his great project of a political science. His first verson of this, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic, was privately circulated in 1640, when Parliament was hotly disputing the king's powers, and Hobbes fled to Paris, where he stayed for eleven years.