Hobbes

English <dab!> Etymology From a medieval diminutive form of the given name en Robert + the patronymic suffix -s. Pronunciation en /hɒbz/ RP en /hɑbz/ GA en En-us-Hobbes.oga US en ɒbz 1 Proper noun es en patronymics. Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), English philosopher. en 1871 Economic Fallacies and Labour Utopias Quarterly Review The Quarterly Review 131 261 244 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5k0OwoQWreEC&pg=PA244 Masters and men, according to Mr. Thornton, fatally confront each other in something like Hobbes’s misanthropically imagined state of nature, with nothing but force, or the fear of force in the background en 9 October 2015 w:Jonathan Chait Why Republicans Need Paul Ryan As House Speaker New York (magazine) New York https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/10/why-republicans-need-paul-ryan-as-house-speaker.html The ideological gap between figures like Boehner and antagonists like Ted Cruz is not completely nonexistent; a world in which Boehner had unfettered power would have a radically smaller government, while a Cruz-topia would look more like Hobbes’s state of nature. https://web.archive.org/web/20230529134754/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/10/why-republicans-need-paul-ryan-as-house-speaker.html 29 May 2023 en 11 July 2022 Virginia Hefferman Humans Have Always Been Wrong About Humans Wired (magazine) Wired https://www.wired.com/story/david-wengrow-dawn-of-everything/ Wengrow and Graeber argue that the life of hunter-gatherers before widespread farming was nothing like “the drab abstractions of evolutionary theory,” which hold that early humans lived in small bands in which they acted almost entirely on instinct, either brutish (as in Hobbes) or egalitarian and innocent (as in Rousseau). https://web.archive.org/web/20260926151607/https://www.wired.com/story/david-wengrow-dawn-of-everything/ 26 September 2026 Derived terms en Hobbesian Hobbesianism Hobbesism Hobbesist Hobbish Hobbism Hobbist Hobbistic Translations surname Armenian: hy Հոբս Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 霍布斯 Huòbùsī Latin: la Hobbius m Russian: ru Гоббс en calculator words