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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

  • 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

  • That is your prerogative, but I wouldn't risk calling Thomas Hobbes dumb.

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • His father, also called Thomas Hobbes, was a somewhat disreputable local clergyman.

    Thomas Hobbes Duncan, Stewart 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • 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?

    The Freedom Fighter's Journal 2009

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