Hobbes then leaves Sam with Gretta and drives alone to Milano's remote cabin to isolate and trap Azazel.

One evening Jekyll attends a party at the home of his fiancee Muriel Carew ( Rose Hobart ), the daughter of Brigadier General Sir Danvers Carew ( Halliwell Hobbes ).

Entering the University of Leiden he took his degree in philosophy in 1689, with a dissertation De distinctione mentis a corpore ( on the difference of the mind from the body ), in which he attacked the doctrines of Epicurus, Thomas Hobbes and Spinoza.

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.

Some are non-verbal ( Marmaduke, The Angriest Dog in the World ), some have verbal thoughts but are not understood by humans, ( Garfield, Snoopy in Peanuts ), and some can converse with humans ( Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, Mutts, Citizen Dog, Buckles, Get Fuzzy, Pearls Before Swine and Pooch Cafe ).

Hedonism, for example, teaches that this feeling is pleasure — either one's own, as in egoism ( the 17th-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes ), or everyone's, as in universalistic hedonism, or utilitarianism ( the 19th-century English philosophers Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Henry Sidgwick ), with its formula of the " greatest pleasure of the greatest number.

Rousseau posits that the original, deeply flawed Social Contract ( i. e., that of Hobbes ), which led to the modern state, was made at the suggestion of the rich and powerful, who tricked the general population into surrendering their liberties to them and instituted inequality as a fundamental feature of human society.

In his treatise Leviathan, ( 1651 ), Hobbes expresses a view of natural law as a precept, or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man is forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life, or takes away the means of preserving the same ; and to omit that by which he thinks it may best be preserved.

This classification is comparatively recent ( it was not used by Aristotle or Hobbes, for instance ), and dates from the French Revolution era, when those members of the National Assembly who supported the republic, the common people and a secular society sat on the left and supporters of the monarchy, aristocratic privilege and the Church sat on the right.

* Thomas Hobbes: Generally considered to have first articulated how the concept of a social contract that justifies the actions of rulers ( even where contrary to the individual desires of governed citizens ), can be reconciled with a conception of sovereignty.

), Great Political Thinkers: Machiavelli, Hobbes, Mill and Marx, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992

In his Discourse on the Origins of Inequality Among Men ( 1754 ), Rousseau maintained that man in a State of Nature had been a solitary, ape-like creature, who was not méchant ( bad ), as Hobbes had maintained, but ( like some other animals ) had an " innate repugnance to see others of his kind suffer " ( and this natural sympathy constituted the Natural Man's one-and-only natural virtue ).

Hugo Grotius, Thomas Hobbes ( 1651 ), Samuel Pufendorf ( 1673 ), John Locke ( 1689 ), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1762 ) are among the most prominent of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century theorists of social contract and natural rights.

Some of the main philosophers who have dealt with this issue are Marcus Aurelius, Omar Khayyám, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Leibniz, David Hume, Baron d ' Holbach ( Paul Heinrich Dietrich ), Pierre-Simon Laplace, Arthur Schopenhauer, William James, Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Ralph Waldo Emerson and, more recently, John Searle, Ted Honderich, and Daniel Dennett.

" There are two strongly contrasting views of Nature in the play: that of the Lear party ( Lear, Gloucester, Albany, Kent ), exemplifying the philosophy of Bacon and Hooker, and that of the Edmund party ( Edmund, Cornwall, Goneril, Regan ), akin to the views later formulated by Hobbes.

However, absolute monarchy, theorized by Hobbes in the Leviathan ( 1651 ), remained a dominant principle.

Many cite Sun Tzu's The Art of War ( 6th century BC ), Thucydides ' History of the Peloponnesian War ( 5th century BC ), Chanakya's Arthashastra ( 4th century BC ), as the inspiration for realist theory, with Hobbes ' Leviathan and Machiavelli's The Prince providing further elaboration.

In Leviathan ( 1651 ), Hobbes proposed the foundation political theory that distinguishes between a state of nature where there is no authority and a modern state.

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.

A moral philosopher who produced alternatives to the ideas of Thomas Hobbes, one of his major contributions to world thought was the utilitarian and consequentialist principle that virtue is that which provides, in his words, " the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers ".

" Parkin observes that much of Cumberland's material " is derived from Roman Stoicism, particularly from the work of Cicero, as " Cumberland deliberately cast his engagement with Hobbes in the mould of Cicero's debate between the Stoics, who believed that nature could provide an objective morality, and Epicureans, who argued that morality was human, conventional and self-interested.

This universalising step, which Singer traces from Kant to Hare, is crucial and sets him apart from those moral theorists, from Hobbes to David Gauthier, who tie morality to prudence.

John Locke, on the other hand, who gave us Two Treatises of Government and who did not believe in the divine right of kings either, sided with Aquinas and stood against both Machiavelli and Hobbes by accepting Aristotle's dictum that man seeks to be happy in a state of social harmony as a social animal.

Both Hobbes and Bodin thought they were defending the power of kings, not advocating democracy, but their arguments about the nature of sovereignty were fiercely resisted by more traditional defenders of the power of kings, like Sir Robert Filmer in England, who thought that such defenses ultimately opened the way to more democratic claims.

* Thomas Hobbes ( 1588 – 1679 ) English philosopher, who wrote Leviathan, a key text in political philosophy.

Important empiricist who expanded and extended the work of Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes.

Hobbes ' vision of the natural depravity of man inspired fervent disagreement among those who opposed absolute government.

O ’ Neill believes that Hobbes ( who had instructed Charles in philosophy ) had significant influence on Cavendish ’ s natural philosophy and notes that Cavendish was among the few seventeenth century supporters of Hobbes ’ materialist philosophy, which argued that incorporeal souls do not exist in nature.

Another famous student of the Hall was the political philosopher Thomas Hobbes, who came up in either 1601 or 1602.

Others have viewed them as having phallic symbolism, an idea which was purported by Thomas Hobbes, who erroneously believed that the poles dated back to the Roman worship of the god Priapus.

Hobbes finishes by inquiring who benefits from the errors he diagnoses:

* Joseph Butler ( 1692 – 1752 ) English bishop, theologian, apologist and philosopher who offered critiques of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and influenced figures such as David Hume, Thomas Reid, and Adam Smith

In Natural Right and History Strauss begins with a critique of Max Weber's epistemology, briefly engages the relativism of Martin Heidegger ( who goes unnamed ), and continues with a discussion of the evolution of natural rights via an analysis of the thought of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.

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.

It was Thomas Hobbes in his 1651 work " Leviathan " who stated that citizens yield to a powerful sovereign who in turn promises an end to civil and religious war, and to bring forth a lasting peace, and give him the right to conduct policy, including wage war or negotiate for peace for the good of the " commonwealth ", i. e. a mandate for national security.

Cudworth criticizes two main forms of materialistic atheism, the atomic, adopted by Democritus, Epicurus and Hobbes ; and the hylozoic, attributed to Strato of Lampsacus, which explains everything by the supposition of an inward self-organizing life in matter.

In chapter XIII of Leviathan, Hobbes explains the concept with these words:

Cynthia Ellen Nixon ( born April 9, 1966 ) is an American actress, best known for her portrayal of Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series Sex and the City ( 1998 – 2004 ).

She raised her profile significantly as one of the four regulars on HBO's successful comedy Sex and the City ( 1998 – 2004 ), as the lawyer Miranda Hobbes.

) In 2008, she revived her role as Miranda Hobbes in the Sex and the City feature film, directed by HBO executive producer Michael Patrick King and co-starring the cast of the original series.

Macduff echoes sentiments of writers such as Plato and the later Thomas Hobbes, who claim that morality may only be judged to the extent that a person takes responsibility for his or her actions.

* Conway's only surviving treatise, The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy ( 1692 ) presents an ontology of spirit in opposition to More, Descartes, Hobbes and Spinoza and utilizes a concept of a monad derived from Kabbala and which anticipates Leibniz who may have plagiarized the idea from her.

The opening shows a young couple being welcomed as residents to the tower block, intercut with Dr Hobbes murdering his adolescent mistress by strangling her, then cutting open her stomach and pouring acid into her body to kill the parasites, and then cutting his own throat.

She is similar to Calvin in Calvin and Hobbes in that she often uses adult-like language to express her child-like feelings.

She wrote her dissertation on the problem of social organizing in the work of Thomas Hobbes.