Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher, scientist, and historian best known for his political philosophy, especially as articulated in his master...

Hobbes’s father was a quick-tempered vicar who, disgraced after engaging in a brawl at his own church door, disappeared, abandoning his three child...

For nearly the whole of his adult life, Thomas Hobbes was employed by members of the wealthy and aristocratic Cavendish family and their associates...

Thomas Hobbes’s political philosophy influenced not only successors who adopted the social-contract framework—John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, an...