In an interview with Howard Stern, the comedian revealed that she was originally offered the role of Miranda Hobbes of TV show Sex and the City, but opted out due to the " terrible " original script and low paycheck.

* 1650: A Discourse upon Gondibert, an heroick poem ( or simply Gondibert ), originally published unfinished, then published again in 1651 in its final form and included Davenant's " Preface to his most honour ’ d friend Mr. Hobs " and " The Answer of Mr. Hobbes to Sir William D ’ Avenant ’ s Preface before Gondibert " by Thomas Hobbes, to whom the book was dedicated ; the official second edition in 1653 also contained " Certain Verses, written by severall of the author ’ s friends "

Astruc found four documents in Genesis, which he arranged in four columns, declaring that this was how Moses had originally written his book, in the image of the four Gospels of the New Testament, and that a later writer had combined them into a single work, creating the repetitions and inconsistencies which Hobbes, Spinoza and others had noted.

Watterson stopped drawing Calvin and Hobbes at the end of 1995 with a short statement to newspaper editors and his readers that he felt he had achieved all he could in the medium.

Classical liberals agreed with Thomas Hobbes that government had been created by individuals to protect themselves from one another.

Some people, including Aubrey, consider these two contiguous, possibly coincidental events as related and causative of his death: " The Snow so chilled him that he immediately fell so extremely ill, that he could not return to his Lodging ... but went to the Earle of Arundel's house at Highgate, where they put him into ... a damp bed that had not been layn-in ... which gave him such a cold that in 2 or 3 days as I remember Mr Hobbes told me, he died of Suffocation.

Pope Zachary had brought significant challenges to rulers of his era a full 200 years earlier, in a move Thomas Hobbes would famously call " one of the greatest abuses of the papacy in the history of the Church ".

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 ).

In fact, Rousseau arguably shared Hobbes ' pessimistic view of humankind, except that as Rousseau saw it, Hobbes had made the error of assigning it to too early a stage in human evolution.

Grotius posited that individual human beings had natural rights ; Hobbes asserted that men consent to abdicate their rights in favor of the absolute authority of government ( whether monarchial or parliamentary ); Pufendorf disputed Hobbes's equation of a state of nature with war ; Locke believed that natural rights were inalienable, and that the rule of God therefore superseded government authority ; and Rousseau believed that democracy ( self-rule ) was the best way of ensuring the general welfare while maintaining individual freedom under the rule of law.

This was less true when Hobbes wrote Leviathan ; then, more importance was attached to consideration, meaning a mutual exchange of benefits necessary to the formation of a valid contract, and most contracts had implicit terms that arose from the nature of the contractual relationship rather than from the choices made by the parties.

However, a few comic strips like Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes have had considerable success in France and Belgium.

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.

The syndicate desired to have a comic strip featuring the character ; they had asked Bill Watterson to incorporate the character into Calvin and Hobbes, but Watterson refused.

He occupied himself in meditating upon what he had read in the works of Hugo Grotius and Thomas Hobbes, and mentally constructed a system of universal law.

Hobbes had maintained that all other actions, however disguised under apparent sympathy, have their roots in self-love.

After lengthy discussion with Hobbes, the Parisian Abraham Bosse created the etching for the book's famous frontispiece in the geometrico style which Bosse himself had refined.

Hobbes describes human psychology without any reference to the summum bonum, or greatest good, as previous thought had done.

D ' Holbach had personally translated Hobbes ' work De Homine (" The Man ") into French.

) In his old age, the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes convinced himself that he had succeeded in squaring the circle.

John Locke had a similar concept to Hobbes about the political condition in England.

Both Hobbes and Locke had set forth a system, in which peaceful coexistence among human beings could be ensured through social pacts or contracts.

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

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One example is that the Calvin & Hobbes comic strip ( written by Bill Waterson ) includes in its scenario a children's book Hamster Huey & The Gooey Kablooie, and Bill Waterson stated in The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book that he believed that Hamster Huey & The Gooey Kablooie should remain an undefined story, left to the reader's imagination ; but someone not associated with the strip published Hamster Huey & The Gooey Kablooie in the real world.

Current notable artists The Brigandines, The JV All * Stars, An Hobbes Stonebelly, BlackDoubt, Ideal Cleaners, Straight Outta Junior High, Nick Hardt, Brimstone Howl, The Awkwords, Son of 76 & the Watchmen, and Eagle * Seagull.

In his senior year, Universal Press Syndicate, which syndicates strips such as Doonesbury and Calvin & Hobbes, offered Winick a development contract.

* 1992: Foreign comic: Calvin & Hobbes: En avant tête de thon!

Some newspaper translations used also names Kelvin & Celsjusz ( after the Kelvin and Celsius temperature scales ) and Kalwin i Hops ( Hops is both attempt at phonetic approximation of Hobbes ' name, and onomatopoeia meaning ' jump ').

* Portuguese: Calvin & Hobbes in Portugal and Calvin e Haroldo in Brazil

Beginnings is similar in both format and artistic style to Calvin & Hobbes, which has been occasionally referenced in LICD, including Calvin's sled ( with a stuffed tiger clearly visible ) running over Noel and Rayne offering Calvin money to run him over again.

He appeared in the 2008 series of Doctor Who as Professor Hobbes, in the episode " Midnight ".

In addition to his role on Party of Five, and the X-Files episode: Miracle Man ( 1994 ), Bairstow has also starred as the lead character, Newt Call, in both Lonesome Dove: The Series and Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years, as well as the lead, Lt. Tom Hobbes, in Chris Carter's short-lived series, Harsh Realm.

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.

Despite the relatively unglamorous nature of his assignment, Blair, along with his wing of pilots including top aces Hobbes and Maniac, is able to provide at least some defense for the TCS Behemoth before its destruction at the hands of a traitor.

Hobbes is skeptical of Azazel's claims until the demon begins to sing " Time Is on My Side ", then begins to possess people via touch, continuing to sing the song as he moves from body to body before fading away into the crowd of people on the street.

As mentioned before, the comic draws from Calvin and Hobbes, but in a complementary way.

* A few years after the Switcheroo, Bill Amend ( FoxTrot ) made a Sunday strip in which Jason Fox, Andy Fox, Roger Fox, and Peter Fox changed looks: Baby Blues, Calvin and Hobbes ( which had ended roughly 15 months before the original Switcheroonie ), and Doonesbury were three of several parodied strips.

He was accompanied by Hobbes on the Grand Tour from about 1610, when he visited France and Italy before his coming of age.

This book is in three main parts: ( I ) It deals first with the history of certain key ideas from the early modern period ( assessing thinkers from Hobbes and Marx to Hegel, Weber and Kuhn, ( II ) before exploring the institutional and social features which have shaped the emergence of modern social science ,( III ) concluding by suggesting an alternative realist philosophy for the future.

If nature cannot err, then there are no paradoxes in it ; to Hobbes, the paradox is a form of the absurd, which is inconsistency: " Natural sense and imagination, are not subject to absurdity " and " For error is but a deception ...

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.

If any person may claim supernatural revelation superior to the civil law, then there would be chaos, and Hobbes ' fervent desire is to avoid this.

Hobbes then discusses the various books which are accepted by various sects, and the question much disputed between the diverse sects of Christian religion, from whence the Scriptures derive their authority.

Hobbes then goes on to criticise what he sees as many of the practices of Catholicism: " Now for the worship of saints, and images, and relics, and other things at this day practised in the Church of Rome, I say they are not allowed by the word of God ".

But then, Hobbes was not necessarily an unquestioned ideal among the court élite, and Hobbesian ideas certainly did not permeate many comedies.

A Calvin and Hobbes strip involved Calvin waking up from a dream, then stepping outside his door only to find it is an abyss, where he wakes up again, and repeats it, only to actually wake up and be incredibly frightened about leaving the house.

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

Jonesy suddenly shoots Stanton, revealing himself to be possessed by Azazel, and then chases Hobbes into the cabin.

Hobbes kills Jonesy by shooting him in the head, but Azazel then possesses Hobbes.

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.

By then the leading theorist in the field was Thomas Hobbes, whose De Corpore Politico, De Cive ( first edition ), and Leviathan, had systematised a coherent and secular defence of the contract as between ruler and ruled.

Cartoonist Bill Watterson of Calvin and Hobbes bridges into hypostasis in 1992 when Calvin, a cartoon, draws a cartoon of himself and then criticizes his own lack of ability to draw.