1. World History
and Civilization 2
Baluyut, Vanessa T.
BSED 2-F
(Social Studies)
Mr. Frederick John A. Macale

2. Enlightenment Thinker :

3. Thomas Hobbes
• Isinilang sa London
• Noong Abril 05, 1588
• Ang kanyang ama ay may
katungkulan sa parokya
• Ang kanyang tiyuhin ay
isang mangangalakal

4. • Ang kanyang tiyuhin ang nagpaaral sa kanya
• Nagpunta siya sa Magdalen Hall sa Oxford
England para mag-aral
Sa edad na labing apat
• Siya ay magaling na estudyante ng
Latin at Griyego

5. • Nilisan niya ang Oxford noong 1608
• At naging pribadong guro para sa panganay
na anak ni Lord Cavendish Hardwick
o Earl of Devonshire
• Siya ay naglakbay kasama ang kanyang
estudyante noong 1610 sa France, Germany, Italy
• Nagtungo siya sa London para ipagpatuloy ang
kanyang pag-aaral

7. •Kung saan nakilala niya sina :
 Francis Bacon
 Herbert of Cherbury
 Ben Johnson
•Si Hobbes ay konektado pa rin sa pamilyang Cavendish
•1628, namatay ang anak ni Cavendish
• Pero bumalik siya para turuan ang isang anak ni
Cavendish

8. • Noong 1629, isinalin niya ng “Thucydides”
• 1630, “Short Tract on Firt Priciples”
• Mula 1634-1637, Bumalik siya kasama ang
kanyang estudyante
• Sa Paris, nilaan niy ang oras niya asama
Mersenne, Descartes, Gassendi sa Florence at si
Galileo

9. • Noong
bumalik siya sa
England isinulat niya ang
“Elements of Law
Natural and Politic”
• Ang unang labing tatlong
tsapter ay inilimbag noong
1650 na may pamagat na
“Human Nature”
• At ang natirang gawa
niya ay pinamagatang
“De Corpore Politico”

10. • 1640, Pumunta siya France at namalagi ng
labing isang taon doon
•Siya’y nagplano para sa kanyang pilosopiya
na may tatlong anyo :
-Matter/body
-Human nature
-Society

11. • “De Cive” nailathala noong 1642 sa Paris

12. •“Philosophical Rudiments Concerning
Government and Society”

13. • 1651, Bumalik siya sa
England
• LEVIATHAN
- pinaka kontrobersyal na
gawa ni Hobbes
• solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.“
•1656, “The Questions Concerning Liberty,
Necessily and Chance”
• 1655, “De Corpore” at 1656, “De Homine”

14. -Leviathan

15. • 1668, Nailathala sa Amsterdam ang
Leviathan
• 1668, “Dialogue between a Philosopher and
a Student of the Common Laws of England
• May mga gawa siya na hindi pa nailalathala
tulad ng “Heresy at Behemoth”
-History of the Causes of the
Civil War of England

17. • Patuloy siyang nagsulat , At isinulat niya ang kanyang
buhay sa Latin sa edad na walong pu’t apat
• Isinalin din niya ang “Iliad and the Odyssey”
• 1675, Nilisan niya ang London. Sa huling
pagkakataon tumira siya sa pamilyang Cavendish
sa Derbyshire
• Si Hobbes ay namatay noong Disyembre 4, 1679
sa Hardwick

18. Abril 05, 1588 -Disyembre 4, 1679

19. Mga Tanyag
na Linya ni
Thomas Hobbes

20.  “A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them
that assault him by force, to take away his life.”
 “A man's conscience and his judgment is the same
thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience,
may be erroneous.”
 “A wise man should so write (though in words
understood by all men) that wise men only should be
able to commend him.”
 “All generous minds have a horror of what are
commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts
of the intellectual domain.”
 “Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”

21.  “During the time men live without a common power
to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions
called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against
every man.”
 “Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that
which everyone in himself calleth religion.”
 “Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal
virtues.”
 “He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not
conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.”
 “I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in
the dark.”

22.  “I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a
perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that
ceaseth only in death.”
 “In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.”
“It is not wisdom but authority that makes law”
 “Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising
from some sudden conception of some eminency in
ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others,
or with our own formerly.”
 “Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.”

23.  “No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him
to persist in it.”
 “Not believing in force is the same as not believing in
gravitation.”
 “Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally
bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply
themselves unto.”
 “Science is the knowledge of consequences, and
dependence of one fact upon another.”
 “Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may
acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more
eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe
there be many so wise as themselves.”

25. References :
• Stumpf, Samuel Enoch, Philosophy: History and Problems, (United States: Mc
Graw-Hill Inc, 1971), 224-234
• http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/nature/hobbes-bio.html
• http://www.egs.edu/library/thomas-hobbes/biography/
• http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061116162655AAeIMyj
• http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_
hobbes.html#APUfcpdg6hYSAqiS.99
•.google.com/site/lockevshobbeswhowillwin/home/who-was-john-locke/john-
lockes-ideas/who-was-thomas-hobbes

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