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Thomas Hobbes
Title: Thomas Hobbes
Category: History
Details: Words: 1243 | Pages: 5.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher, mathematician, and linguist. Hobbes was born of an impoverished clerical family in Malmesbury, Wiltshire. At school he quickly excelled, making a reputation as a linguist and fluent poet and translator. After Oxford he entered the employment of William Cavendish, and except for a short interval remained secretary, tutor, and general advisor to the family for the rest of his career. His employment included several "Grand Tours" during which he …showed first 75 words of 1243 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1243 total…What is moral and immoral is determined by what leads to lasting peace, which is the preservation of one’s life.The existence of the state is determined by,what is just and unjust by the laws of the state. Justifying that, it is immoral to hold that the sovereign can act unjustly, for to hold this is contrary to the stability of the state and to lasting peace and preservation of one’s life.
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