"Socrates is said to have been the first, who truly loved this civil science, although hitherto not thoroughly understood, yet glimmering forth as through a cloud in the government of the common weal, and that he set so great a value on this, that utterly abandoning, and despising all other parts of philosophy, he wholly embraced this, as judging it only worthy the labour of his mind."
-- From the Preface to De Cive
Read John Aubrey's Brief Life of Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Concise rendition of the Early Life, Later Life and Writings, the State of Nature, Laws of Nature, Other Laws of Nature, and Governments. Useful for a quick overview.
An Italian site devoted to the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes. The site wishes to offer an essential survey on online resources on Hobbes (links, discussion groups, studies, bibliographical researches, mailing list), together with a series of useful documents by and about Hobbes. In particular, the
Bibliography of Works by Hobbes
provides a list of bibliography of Hobbes's works has been written on the basis of Arrigo Pacchi's Introduzione a Hobbes (Laterza 1971) and Quentin Skinner's Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes (Cambridge University Press 1996). It is incomplete.
Given by Ian Johnston, Malaspina University-College, 1996. Introductory lecture that peculiarly focuses of the Hobbesian man as economically motivated rather than preoccupied with the quest for vain glory.
The Hobbesian argument for the state
A short lecture given by Chris Bertram (copyright 2000), Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Bristol.
A paper by Marcelo Dascal, Tel Aviv University. He argues that Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was the first thinker to propose the "computational theory of the mind", but also with defined -- along with his contemporaries -- the problem-space within which present-day Cognitive Sciences still operate.
