Hobbes
Nasty, brutish, short
Hobbes refers to Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), the English philosopher best known for *Leviathan*, which argued that human life without government would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." His political philosophy emphasized the need for a strong sovereign to prevent chaos.
In popular culture, Hobbes is also the stuffed tiger companion in Bill Watterson's comic strip *Calvin and Hobbes*, named after the philosopher.
Scriptural marine serpent
- social contractAgreement exchanging freedom for order
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- materialismPrioritizing goods over spirit
- commonwealthState for public good
natural state · absolutism · mechanistic · empiricism · political philosophy · state of nature · determinism · civil law
Protestant Reformation leader
- comic stripSerialized newspaper cartoon panels
- stuffed animalSoft toy with filling
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- best friendMost trusted companion
Bill Watterson · tuna fish · pouncing · sardonic · philosophical · mischief · wagon · cardboard box
Deeply unpleasant or spiteful
- brutishCruel and uncivilized
- shortOf limited extent
- solitaryExisting alone, apart
- poorLacking sufficient resources
self-interest · competition · diffidence · glory · equality · anarchy · conflict · survival
Leviathan
Scriptural marine serpent
- social contractAgreement exchanging freedom for order
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- materialismPrioritizing goods over spirit
commonwealth · natural state · absolutism · mechanistic · empiricism · political philosophy · state of nature · determinism · civil law · seventeenth century
Calvin
Protestant Reformation leader
- comic stripSerialized newspaper cartoon panels
- stuffed animalSoft toy with filling
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
Bill Watterson · best friend · tuna fish · pouncing · sardonic · philosophical · mischief · wagon · cardboard box · transmogrifier
nasty
Deeply unpleasant or spiteful
poor · self-interest · competition · diffidence · glory · equality · anarchy · conflict · survival · fear of death
- Comic CharactersSuperman, Batman, Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, Captain America
- Fictional TigersTigger, Shere Khan, Tony the Tiger, Daniel Tiger, Shiva
- 17th Century ThinkersRene Descartes, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, John Locke
- Baroque Era FiguresDescartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Newton
- EthicistsAristotle, Kant, Immanuel Kant, Bentham, Mill
- philosophersAristotle, Plato, Socrates, Kant, Descartes
HobbesLocke
English empiricist philosopher's surname
John Locke · Rousseau · Jean-Jacques Rousseau · anarchism · libertarianism
HobbesRousseau
French surname, philosopher or painter
noble savage · Jean-Jacques Rousseau · mutual aid · innate goodness · anarcho-communism
- Calvin and HobbesComic about imaginative boy
- Thomas HobbesEnglish political philosopher