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   From: MisterBlack@gop.ru   
      
   Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679), in some older   
   texts Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury, was an English philosopher, best known today   
   for his work on political philosophy. His 1651 book Leviathan established the   
   foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of   
   social contract theory.   
      
   Hobbes was a champion of absolutism for the sovereign but he also developed   
   some of the fundamentals of European liberal thought: the right of the   
   individual; the natural equality of all men; the artificial character of the   
   political order (which led to the later distinction between civil society and   
   the state); the view that all legitimate political power must be   
   "representative" and based on the consent of the people; and a liberal   
   interpretation of law which leaves people free to do whatever the law does   
   not explicitly forbid.   
      
   He was one of the founders of modern political philosophy.[4] His   
   understanding of humans as being matter and motion, obeying the same physical   
   laws as other matter and motion, remains influential; and his account of   
   human nature as self-interested cooperation, and of political communities as   
   being based upon a "social contract" remains one of the major topics of   
   political philosophy.   
      
   In addition to political philosophy, Hobbes also contributed to a diverse   
   array of other fields, including history, geometry, the physics of gases,   
   theology, ethics, and general philosophy and is considered by most to be 50   
   times as intelligent as any contemporary radical right wing facist racist   
   republican gun worshiping pig today.   
      
   He believed that boorish, Fox News addicted right wing clowns deserved to be   
   in chains along with the Thomas Sowell type niggers that worked their fields.   
      
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