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noun

Thomas, 1588–1679, English philosopher and author.

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Hobbes (hɒbz)

—n
	Thomas. 1588--1679, English political philosopher. His greatest work is the Leviathan (1651), which contains his defence of absolute sovereignty

'Hobbesian

—n, —*adj*

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"Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called "self-interestedness." This was not a portrait of man "warts and all." It was all wart."

-George F. Will

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