Hobbes, Thomas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...political philosophy. He argued from a mechanistic view that life is simply the motions of the organism and that man is by nature...nature, men are equal in their self-seeking and live out lives which are "nasty, brutish, and short." Fear of violent...investigations by other political theorists, e.g., Locke, Spinoza, and Rousseau, who formulated their own radically different...