In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes set forth the argument that when “men live without other security than what their own strength ...

A new American Revolution is going on in the Supreme Court. In recent years, it has issued four major decisions curtailing ...

A new book shows how the idea of a private sphere took shape over centuries ...

Justice Thomas has made similar pronouncements in many other judicial opinions. His concurring opinion in 2007's Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 is perhaps ...

As a trained political scientist who grew up with a father who was also a political scientist, I’ve long been familiar with the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes’s assertion that without ...

This correlates with his namesake, Thomas Hobbes. Hobbes’ most famous work is 1651’s Leviathan, in which he lays bare the ...

The reference point for this imagined Superbowl game is the centuries-old debate between the political philosophies of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and John Locke (1632-1704), which I will get to ...

English philosopher Thomas Hobbes believed that life would be "nasty, brutish and short" without a strong government. IDEAS explores how a new take on Hobbes offers a surprising perspective on the ...

The dog's name appears to be a play on 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," in which he described human existence as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." ...

Article Published: 20 June 1942 MODERN SCIENCE AND THOMAS HOBBES A. E. BELL Nature 149, 688–690 (1942) Cite this article ...

The philosopher Thomas Hobbes is our best guide to the underlying logic of current American politics, that is, as to how and why extreme civil strife seems to invite one-man rule.

Gray’s jaundiced view of the liberal tradition partly explains his odd use of the seventeenth-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Each chapter of The New Leviathans begins with a quotation from ...