THOMAS HOBBES

If not by universal consent, at least in the opinion of close students of political theory, Thomas Hobbes is the gretest of English political philosophers, and the most exciting. To read Leviathan is exhilarating. For so large a treatuise it is wonderfully concise; it is also well constructed. Is powerful and quick, robust, colourful comes resolutely to extreme conclusions, and lacks the moderation of Locke and other writers who have seemed more typicalli English. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), though he wrote on a wide range of philosophical problems, was primarily a political theorist, on of the earliest as as one of the problem of government. Hobbes's ruthless depiction of the evils of the "state of nature" was used by him as central to his argument in favour of absolute rule.Even if his political realism is not the political realism of Arthasastra Kautilya or Machiavelli's Il Principe, Hobbes stimulates mor then he persuades. The most disputation of political philosophers, he continually invites us to argument.
Casalino Pierluigi