THOMAS HOBBES by Casalino Pierluigi, Laigueglia, 1949

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), though he wrote on a wide range of philoophical problems, was primarily a political theorist, one of the earliest as well as one of the greatest English writers on the problems of governement. Hobbes's ruthless depiction of the evils of the "state of nature" was used by him as central to this argument in favour of absolute rule: but, though few readers have ever been prepared to follow his argument to that unpopular conclusion, the relentless realism of his approach to the problems of social organisation has exerted a continuing influence on later thinkers. His own thought was inavitably conditioned by his personal experience of civil war and political disorder, but ha proved powerful enough to transcend the limitation of hi hitorical origins:it also gains much from the striking, often ironic, epigrammatic style which is so apt an expression of Hobbes's temperament.
Casalino Pierluigi, on December, 18th, 2015....