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Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher was born in England in 1588 at Westport near Malmesbury. He graduated from Oxford in 1608 and became the tutor of the Earl of Devonshire,William Cavendish. In this position he traveled with the Cavendish family extensivly on the continent, where he met leading thinkers of the day,inc1uding Galileo and Gassendi. He was greatly int1uenced by them.
Hobbes designed a Natural philosophy based on the law of motion. "De Corpore" concerning Body, "De Homine" concerning Man, "De Cive" concerning the citizen and influential book "Leviathan" are a series of books. In England he was much admired by Sir Francis Bacon.
Hobbes describes men as they appear in what he calls the State of Nature,which is the condition of men before there is any state or civil society. In this state of nature, all men are equal and equally have the right to whatever they consider necessary for their survival.
"Equality"here means that anyone is capable of hurting his neighbor for his own protect-ionThe word "right", in discussion of the "right of all to all", in the bare state of nature is a man's freedom "to do what he would" and against whom he throught, fit, and to possess ,use and enjoy all that he would, or could get."
Hobbes affirmed i,n a notable passage: "To the care of the government( sovereign) belongeth the making of good law?" He gives two reasons for saying no law can be unjust: because justice means obeying the law, and this is why justice comes into being only after a law has been made; second, when a government (sovereign) make a law, it is as thought the people were making the law.
In his political theory Hobbes ana lysed the conditions necessary for peace and security and, in his version of the social