Hobbes and Locke were responding even more directly to the political strife and violence close to home, specifically the English civil wars of the mid-17th century, during which a king was ...

Given ancient traditions, and contemporary resentments of America’s global ascendancy, it is fanciful to think that the priest who lives here, hard by Lake Michigan, might one day be summoned… ...

And as Hobbes observed, and the Post confirms, the state of nature is a brutal place: Keith Green, 37, said he's heard too many scary stories to slip into a spot someone has blocked off.

The Constitution of the United States did not spring fully formed in Philadelphia in the 18th century. It was the product — possibly the finest product — of the Enlightenment, which in turn was the ...

Unlike Thomas Hobbes, for example, Locke’s “state of nature” was framed by a moral order whose origin was the Divine will. The state of Nature has a law of Nature to govern it, ...

Thus, Locke postulated that God had superadded active forces to brain matter. Common to Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Baruch Spinoza and other radical thinkers was a disdain for superstition.

Aristotle, like Hobbes, did think that knowledge came from the senses, but he had a very different view of how senses worked. Aristotle believed that every physical object has a form or essence ...