Political Philosophy OF THOMAS HOBBES 1588—1679 BY PROFESSOR QAYUM MANGI
Political Philosophy OF THOMAS HOBBES 1588—1679 According to Prof. Sabine "Hobbes was in fact the first of the great modern philosophers who attempted to bring political theory into intimate relation with a thorough modern system of thought, and human behaviour both its individual and social aspects.(G.H. Sabine: A History of Political Theory EARLY Life Hobbes was born during the extraordinary timorousness era which marked his whole future political life. Hobbes received his early education in Wiltshire, a place at Malmesbury, where he was born. At the age of fifteen years, he joined Oxford . He got the degree of graduation at the age of nineteen. He became tutor to the heir William Cavendish who later on became Earl of Devonshire. His contact with a royal family brought him into contact with most important personalities of the period which left indelible influences on his thinking. Hobbes left England , his spiritual home during the horrors of civil war and was forced to ...