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Born In England, and studied at Oxford University
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https://monthlyreview.org/2018/02/01/preface-to-beyond-leviathan/#lightbox/0/
for the leviathan image
https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14174.html Galileo photo
https://www.britannica.com/event/English-Civil-Wars civil war photo -
traveled to Paris to learn more about philosophy
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in Florence while Galileo was under house arrest
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Hobbes described humans as, self centered and are motivated to do make their own lives better
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sparked the idea of the Leviathan
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Hobbes taught Charles II mathematics after he traveled to Paris
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during this time he got sick with an illness that nearly killed him but left him disabled for 6 months
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His idea of a central government to avoid civil war and avoid the English civil war again
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De Homine fleshed out his ideas in Human Nature and the Leviathan
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Thomas Hobbes past away from a paralytic stroke at 91 years old.
and his last words were, "A great leap into the dark."
