Thomas Hobbes Case

Thomas Hobbes, who was born in 1588, lived a life which is full of success and philosophy. He

wanted to see the real world with a different view, that’s why he tried to improve his knowledge

separetly from his university, Oxford. During his life Galilei and Descartes played a big role. With the

help of his exiles and trips, he became the greatest English philosopher of the 17th century .

‘Leviathan’ was the book which contains Hobbes’s ideas and vision, shaped at his long Parisian exile.

Also the book got his name from a sea monster which mentioned in ‘ The Torah’ (Tevrat). That’s why

his enemies critisiced him as an ataist. But his vision about religion and government could be said to

be as secular.

Hobbes’s famous arguement; ‘ Nature hath made men... equall.’ which he highlighted that

power is not just about physich or knowledge. He claim that physically weak men could beat a strong

men with his logical methods. He believed that nature made an equity, which means nature gave

every men different gifts to protect them. The distance between weak and strong happened because

of acknowledge and barbaric feelings. Their fight against future made them blind to each other so

they choose to become enemies instead of enjoy their desires together. To make a conclusion,

naturel movement laws shaped everybody.

He also believed that ‘every man against