thomas hobbes



born: 1588
died: 1679

works:
leviathan(1652)


relationships:
benefactors:
william cavendish
charles II (stuart)

friends:
francis bacon
pierre gassendi
william harvey
abraham cowley
john selden

influences:
plato
niccolo machiavelli
galileo galilei

influential on:
john locke
charles montesquieu
immanuel kant
edmund burke
thomas paine
karl marx

opponents:
aristotle
jean-jacques rousseau
david hume
jeremy bentham

enemies:
sources:
1) leviathan, john plamenatz, fontana, 1974
notes:
- spent many of his younger years as a tutor to the cavendish family.
- moved back and forth between england and france out of fear of the political repercussions of his writing.