Since the conclusion of Calvin and Hobbes, Watterson has taken up painting, at one point drawing landscapes of the woods with his father.

Watterson has kept away from the public eye and has given no indication of resuming the strip, creating new works based on the characters, or embarking on other projects, though he has published several anthologies of Calvin and Hobbes strips.

His syndicate, which has since become Universal Uclick, has said that the painting was the first new artwork from Watterson that the syndicate has seen since Calvin and Hobbes ended in 1995.

Since then Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson has written extensively on the issue, arguing that size reduction and dropped panels reduce both the potential and freedom of a cartoonist.

Aubrey has been criticised for his evident credulousness in this and other works ; on the other hand, he knew Thomas Hobbes, Bacon's fellow-philosopher and friend.

While it was once thought that Locke wrote the Treatises to defend the Glorious Revolution of 1688, recent scholarship has shown that the work was composed well before this date, and it is now viewed as a more general argument against absolute monarchy ( particularly as espoused by Robert Filmer and Thomas Hobbes ) and for individual consent as the basis of political legitimacy.

Hobbes has no use for Aristotle's association of nature with human perfection, inverting Aristotle's use of the word " nature.

" Rejecting Cicero's view that men join in society primarily through " a certain social spirit which nature has implanted in man ," Hobbes declares that men join in society simply for the purpose of " getting themselves out from that miserable condition of Warre, which is necessarily consequent ... to the naturall Passions of men, when there is no visible Power to keep them in awe.

Atomic atheism is by far the more important, if only because Hobbes, the great antagonist whom Cudworth always has in view, is supposed to have held it.

In theoretical terms, the idea of " sovereignty ", historically, from Socrates to Thomas Hobbes, has always necessitated a moral imperative on the entity exercising it.

While Hobbes justifies absolute monarchy, this work is the first to posit that the temporal power of a monarch comes about, not because God has ordained that he be monarch, but because his subjects have freely yielded their own power and freedom to him-in other words, Hobbes replaces the divine right of kings with an early formulation of the social contract.

Therefore these arguments held that a group of people can join a government because it has the capacity to exercise a single will and make decisions with a single voice in the absence of sovereign authority — a notion rejected by Hobbes and later contract theorists.

Accordingly, it has been argued that social contract theory is more consistent with the contract law of the time of Hobbes and Locke than with the contract law of our time, and that features in the social contract which seem anomalous to us, such as the belief that we are bound by a contract formulated by our distant ancestors, would not have seemed as strange to Hobbes ' contemporaries as they do to us.

His standpoint has a negative and a positive aspect ; he is in strong opposition to Thomas Hobbes and Mandeville, and in fundamental agreement with Shaftesbury, whose name he very properly coupled with his own on the title page of the first two essays.

In Leviathan, Hobbes explicitly states that the sovereign has authority to assert power over matters of faith and doctrine, and that if he does not do so, he invites discord.

Leben und Lehre, Stuttgart: Frommann, 1896, 3rd edn 1925 ; a philosophical study that reveals his indebtedness to Hobbes, many of whose writings he has edited

In his natural state, according to Hobbes, man's life consisted entirely of liberties and not at all of laws – " It followeth, that in such a condition, every man has the right to every thing ; even to one another's body.

It has been pointed out that the views of the philosophical libertine were strongly influenced by the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes.

" There seems to be little doubt that this could only be John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes, respectively.

This idea was already rejected as untenable by John Calvin ( 1509 – 1564 ), and by the time of Thomas Hobbes ( 1588 – 1679 ) it was recognised that the book must have been written much later than the period it depicted.

After a brief time at the grammar school of Colmar, he went to Strasbourg in 1651, where he devoted himself to the study of philology, history and philosophy, and won his degree of master ( 1653 ) by a disputation against the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes.

He suggests the dominant political theology of the time, Scholasticism, thrives on confused definitions of everyday words, such as incorporeal substance, which for Hobbes is a contradiction in terms.

For a time he was taught geometry by Thomas Hobbes, during which lessons he reportedly masturbated.

This was seen as an " incredible " paradox by many at the time ( including Torricelli himself, who tried several alternative proofs ), and prompted a fierce controversy about the nature of infinity, involving the philosopher Hobbes.

Another correspondent was William Cavendish, 2nd Earl of Devonshire ; English translations by Thomas Hobbes of 45 letters to the Earl were published ( Hobbes acted as the Earl's secretary ), and it is now thought that these are jointly from Sarpi ( when alive ) and his close friend Fulgenzio Micanzio, something concealed at the time as a matter of prudence.

The apparent paradox formed part of a great dispute over the nature of infinity involving many of the key thinkers of the time including Thomas Hobbes, John Wallis and Galileo Galilei.

A critical period in the history of this work's influence is at the end of the Middle Ages, and beginning of modernity, when several authors such as Niccolò Machiavelli, Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes, argued forcefully and largely successfully that the medieval Aristotelian tradition in practical thinking had become a great impediment to practical political thinking in their time.

It should be mentioned that John Locke and Thomas Hobbes developed their well known political philosophies during this time, as well.

At about the same time, C. B. Macpherson argued in his Political Theory of Possessive Individualism that Hobbes and Locke stood together in laying the groundwork for proto-capitalism.

At the same time, they were reacting against the reductive materialist writings of Thomas Hobbes.

Lucy is a talking pygmy Clydesdale who, like Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes, plays the silent observer most of the time.

At that time, thinkers like Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Shaftesbury, and Smith created the intellectual foundation upon which modern business and capitalism was built.

The next day, Hobbes takes Sam to Gretta's where they consult several ancient texts and discover that Azazel's ability to transfer from body to body in spirit form has a finite range of about one-sixth of a mile and must be performed within a relatively short time period.

A modern view agrees to the extent that 10 of the essays can be shown to have been written by William ( for his father ) in 1615, at a time when Thomas Hobbes was his tutor.

About this time he was engaged in a philosophical controversy with Thomas Hobbes, in fact a small part of the debate with John Webster launched by the Vindiciae academiarum he wrote with John Wilkins which also incorporated an attack on William Dell.

One example of this from popular culture is Calvin of the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, who often used a cardboard box for imaginative purposes from a " transmogrifier " to a time machine.

Hobbes said :" The Latines called Accounts of mony Rationes ... and thence it seems to proceed that they extended the word Ratio, to the faculty of Reckoning in all other things .... When a man reasoneth hee does nothing else but conceive a summe totall ... For Reason ... is nothing but Reckoning ... of the consequences of generall names agreed upon, for the marking and signifying of our thoughts ...."

The real distinction between essence and existence, and that between form and matter, which served for so long as the basis of metaphysics, Hobbes identifies as " the Error of Separated Essences.

Later, when Watterson was creating names for the characters in his comic strip, he allegedly decided upon Calvin ( after the Protestant reformer John Calvin ) and Hobbes ( after the social philosopher Thomas Hobbes ) as a " tip of the hat " to the political science department at Kenyon.

In " The Complete Calvin And Hobbes ," Watterson does not name the inspiration for Calvin's character, but he does say Calvin is named for " a 16th-century theologian who believed in predestination ," and Hobbes for " a 17th-century philosopher with a dim view of human nature.

He designed grocery advertisements for four years prior to creating Calvin and Hobbes.

In Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book, he wrote that his influences included Charles Schulz for Peanuts ; Walt Kelly for Pogo and George Herriman for Krazy Kat.

He drew a new Calvin and Hobbes cover for that issue of the magazine as well.

After his sabbatical year in 1991 he managed to gain an exception to these constraints for Calvin and Hobbes, allowing him to draw his Sunday strip the way he wanted.

* 1988: Sproing Award, for Tommy og Tigern ( Calvin and Hobbes )

* 1989: Harvey Award, Special Award for Humor, for Calvin and Hobbes

* 1990: Harvey Award, Best Syndicated Comic Strip, for Calvin and Hobbes

* 1990: Max & Moritz Prize, Best Comic Strip, for Calvin and Hobbes

* 1991: Harvey Award, Best Syndicated Comic Strip, for Calvin and Hobbes

* 1991: Adamson Award, for Kalle och Hobbe ( Calvin and Hobbes )

* 1992: Harvey Award, Best Syndicated Comic Strip, for Calvin and Hobbes

* 1993: Harvey Award, Best Syndicated Comic Strip, for Calvin and Hobbes