Hobbes

Tomas Hobbes was the first great English philosopher in the field of political thought. His work Leviathan was truly the first of the works of modern philosophy. For a long time he has been viewed as a pessimistic atheist who painted human nature as a inevitably evil, which pushed him towards delineating the of a totalitarian state, which thought subjugation would aim to avoid the shortcomings of evils of a man viewed as an individual being. In this enlightening study, Richard Tuck tries to strip the above myths one by one, to reveal to us a Hobbes released, full of passion, against throwing down skepticism, either in science or in our ethics. In addition, the author shows how Hobbes developed by Descartes.