Hobbism

The Restoration brought Hobbes a pension; but both his works were condemned by Parliament, and "Hobbism" became, ere he died, a popular synonym for irreligion and immorality.

History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 John Richard Green 1860

Locke tempered Hobbism, granting us inalienable rights and the power to resist tyranny, but he did so because he believed humans to be free moral reasoners, created in the image of God.

The Art of Being Ruled Jeffrey Collins 2010

The triumph of mechanistic psychology cannot be understood, however, without taking fully into account the influences exerted on it, often in an eclectic man - ner, by the overlapping currents of Hobbism, Lockean empiricism, and Epicureanism in the intellectual set - ting of the early eighteenth century.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARAM VARTANIAN 1968

He allowed also, with Plato, that wickedness is irrational, by which concession Hobbism is marked off from a celebrated theory stated at the beginning of the second book of Plato's Republic, to which theory in other respects it bears a strong resemblance; the theory being that right by nature is the interest of the stronger, and only by convention becomes the interest of the State.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

“That which would help a man to keep a Coach and six horses,” but he is a lucid and vigorous writer, knowing very well that he had to steer his ship through a narrow and dangerous channel, avoiding Hobbism on the one side and tender consciences on the other.

Andrew Marvell Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 1905

As against this fashionable Hobbism, Parker pleads Conscience.

Andrew Marvell Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 1905

The division of two co-equal realms, one temporal, the other spiritual, was replaced in the Genevese thinker by what he admitted to be "pure Hobbism."

Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) John Morley 1880

They did not perceive its direction towards that "perfect Hobbism," which the author declared to be the only practical alternative to a democracy so austere as to be intolerable.

Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) John Morley 1880

Like the rest of the fine gentlemen about him he aired his Hobbism in sneers at the follies of religion and the squabbles of creeds.

History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 John Richard Green 1860

Hobbism became ere he died a popular synonym for political as well as religious immorality.

History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 John Richard Green 1860