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. |