Thomas Hobbes Research Paper

Thomas Hobbes was born on the 5th of April in 1588 in Wiltshire, England and died the 4th of December in 1679. We know little about his childhood, not even his mother’s name, but his father’s name was Thomas also and was a vicar of Charlton and Westport. He had a brother that was two years older named Edmund and a sister. He had an uncle, Francis Hobbes that was a wealthy merchant banker who took care of Thomas, his mother, and his two siblings after Thomas Sr. deserted the family. Thomas educated at Westport church and later went to a private school operated by Robert Latimer, a graduate of the University of Oxford. Also at that private school was the principal, John Wilkinson, who was a Puritan and had an influence on Hobbes. About 1603 Hobbes …show more content…
He studied first the physical doctrine of motion and physical momentum and when he toured Europe with the son of his employer William Cavendish in 1610 he studied the European scientific and critical methods. In 1628 Hobbes translated from Greek the Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War it was the first translation in English. He did not extend his studies and writing into philosophy unit after 1629 when his employer died during the plague. After his employer’s death, his widow discontinued Hobbes employment. He found work again as a tutor, and he started broadening his knowledge of philosophy and his curiosity grew over philosophic debates. It was during his years working as a tutor that he travels and meets Galilieo Galilei and Johannes Kepler who were changing the philosophical order. He began explaining nature, man, citizenship, and how motion affected them. Because of political arrest in England in 1837 he fled to Paris where he worked on man and citizenship. He later became a mathematics instructor to Prince Charles II of Wales. In 1651, he published Leviathan, which he wrote about his political and religious