Political Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes

Political Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes was a mid-seventeenth century political philosopher. He broke free from the traditional understanding and posed that knowledge is power and further advocated materialistic and mechanistic conceptions of the world. Elements of Law, Natural and Politics, De Corpore and De homine, Philosophical Rudiments Concerning Government and Society and Leviathan are some of his prominent works which depicts his philosophical position.

Hobbes begins his political p…

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The State of Nature and the Nature of the State: The Social Contract in Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau

The Social Contract in Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau

Social Contract theory could be treated as an early expression of the philosophy of liberalism. It is an agreement among men where they relinquish the conjectural state of nature and enter into a civil society. According to the social contract theorists (Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau are the three main exponents of the social contract theory), the sate or civil society is the product of a contract, a covenant, an agreement or a c…

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