If Hobbes is right about human nature, then he is wrong about the state as a solution. Ironically, his key arguments for the ...

By sneaking challenging questions into a comic strip, cartoonist Bill Watterson subtly prompts us to reexamine the world ...

Robin teaches political science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He is the author of Fear: the History of a Political Idea, [2] which aims to ...

When it comes to 17th-century English philosophers, Thomas Hobbes holds a lot of appeal. He wrote with vivid prose, rich argument and a stinging wit. He was also ahead of his time. Nearly 400 years ...

The coronavirus has propelled Thomas Hobbes, one of philosophy’s leading bogeymen, back into the spotlight. It’s unsurprising that two conservative publications in the U.S., the National Review and ...

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was one of the most influential of all political philosophers. His book Leviathan virtually founded the study of the modern state. When Thomas Hobbes published Leviathan in ...

In a late dialogue on English common law, Hobbes addressed a perennial problem: how to allow exceptions to general rules without amplifying divisive claims of sovereign arbitrariness. His solution ...

“When somebody’s the president of the United States, the authority is total” was Donald Trump‘s edict on April 13. Not according to the early definition from the Greek tragedian Euripides: “Nothing ...