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If you work from home, then traveling to work is unlikely to involve the travails described in chapter 3, where I refer to Thomas Hobbes, the seventeenth-century political theorist, to explain why the morning commute brings out the savage in us.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010
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If you work from home, then traveling to work is unlikely to involve the travails described in chapter 3, where I refer to Thomas Hobbes, the seventeenth-century political theorist, to explain why the morning commute brings out the savage in us.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010
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That is your prerogative, but I wouldn't risk calling Thomas Hobbes dumb.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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His father, also called Thomas Hobbes, was a somewhat disreputable local clergyman.
Thomas Hobbes Duncan, Stewart 2009
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On the other hand there is an endless array of social and political philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jeremy Bentham, Hegel, Karl Marx and many others.
enowning enowning 2007
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On the other hand there is an endless array of social and political philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jeremy Bentham, Hegel, Karl Marx and many others.
Archive 2007-09-01 enowning 2007
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He got the C in a class called “Problems in Social Thought,” which explored the works of theorists such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Karl Marx.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Although I Realize Students Often Don’t Like Grading on a Curve, 2007
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Early positivists, such as Thomas Hobbes and John Austin, argued that even the legitimacy of law did not depend on moral criteria; law must be obeyed, however much it falls short of moral ideals.
Law and Ideology Sypnowich, Christine 2001
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You seemed to have swallowed whole the codswallop by ye olde thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes that it is law that makes people civilised, in a sense that a large group of people can get along, and survive for a long time.
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Writers such as Thomas Hobbes, Algernon Sidney, and John Locke questioned basic assumptions about the origin, purpose, and structure of government: Why have government at all?
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