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However, Hobbes is not always the reasonable tiger. Calvin and Hobbes were named after philosophers, and Watterson criticized ...
Thomas Hobbes: The most annoying philosopher of all time? Our series moves on from the Renaissance and into the 17th century, starting with Thomas Hobbes who found a way to annoy almost everybody.
Discovered in the British Library, a secret letter written by philosopher Thomas Hobbes in 1643 could have turned the tides of one of England's bloodiest wars.
When Thomas Hobbes described life in a state of nature as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short,” he penned one of the most celebrated sentences in the English language. The seventeenth ...
When it comes to 17th-century English philosophers, Thomas Hobbes holds a lot of appeal. He wrote with vivid prose, rich argument and a stinging wit. He was also ahead of his time. Nearly 400 years ...
It is said by the locals that the ghost of Thomas Hobbes can be heard grumbling to himself and singing out of key as he walks along the lower terrace of Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire, where he died ...
Calvin and Hobbes centers around a six-year-old boy and his best friend. While seemingly simple, the comic often depicts and explains complex topics. Even the names of the titular characters draw upon ...