English philosopher Thomas Hobbes believed that life would be "nasty, brutish and short" without a strong government. IDEAS ...

Craig Ross on how a philosopher with few illusions made a mistake. Beating up senior citizens while high on drugs may be good, and giving to charity may be evil. Or at least, so Thomas Hobbes would ...

Hobbesian political philosophy, rooted in the works of Thomas Hobbes, emphasizes the necessity of a strong central authority to maintain order and prevent conflict in society. Hobbes argued that ...

Calvin and Hobbes always knew how to appreciate the best that winter had to offer thanks to the snow and Calvin's imagination ...

Almost 400 years ago, English philosopher Thomas Hobbes wrote a book scoffing at tyrannophobia—the “fear of being strongly governed.” This was a peculiar term that Hobbes invented in ...

Thomas Hobbes, the great seventeenth century philosopher, was principally interested in political philosophy. For Hobbes, the difference between order and disorder was stark. In the state of ...

The very first Peanuts Christmas comic strips highlighted how different the strip once was Philosophy was a central aspect of Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes, right down to the fact that he ...

Seventeenth-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes has the reputation of being a bit of a curmudgeon. He is most famous for his bleak description of human nature — that without the rule of law's ...