Little intro.

Hey. My name is Thomas Hobbes and I died like a couple hundred years ago. Being dead is pretty cool (I guess). So pretty much this is Thomas Hobbes ghost blogging. If you don't know of me and my amazing achievements over the course of my lifetime then read past this post and get to know how awesome I really am. In honor of such a good introduction here is a selfie to dazzle you. Enjoy! #throwback #thathairlinetho #selfieeveryday

My legacy

I'm not goin' lie, I was one of those "brilliant thinkers" who had many opinions about society. Hundreds of years after I died, my ideas still influence people today! I was was one of the first thinkers to embrace the social contract as well as natural law. By sacrificing a small chunk of our freedom, people can live in the good of society (instead of that messed up one y'all live in and that one is on you guys). I believe people are equal. No matter the circumstances or  the background of a person should push them down the social ladder. Although my beliefs and ideas didn't necessarily make a huge impact, but my ideas laid out a base for future philosophers.

My Influence on the Modern World

The founding fathers were heavily influenced by me in establishing America's first principles and recognition of unalienable rights, social compact, and limited government! To escape warfare, people established government to secure their peace. This is a basic form of social compact theory of government which was from ya home boy Hobbes!

My Impact on Society

I left an a big influence on the political side of the world. My ideas of people being selfish and my thoughts on the role of the government led to more changes. After the Revolution, my ideas also influenced federalists with arguments that adopted the Constitution. Everyone is equal in my eyes and nobody contains more power than the other (besides the king of course). People cannot survive without a strong central government to protect them. I got tons of smart people studying my work today, so I guess you can say i'm pretty important. Questions that I stated back when I was alive are still being discussed today as well because i challenged the relationship between science and religion and limitations the government should have. Even though my ideas might have seen real cray back then, i'm considered to be on of the most important political thinkers know to man!

Background info on me

I was born on April 5, 1588 in Westport, Wiltshire. My father disappeared abandoning me and my two siblings to the care of my uncle. My uncle was a tradesman and alderman, who also provided my education. When I was 14, I went to Magdalen Hall in Oxford to study and then left Oxford in 1608 to become a private tutor for William Cavendish (the oldest son of Lord Cavendish). In 1610, I traveled with William to France, Italy and Germany, where I met smart people like Francis Bacon an Ben Jonson and some more old people you haven't heard of.During this time I traveled to Paris, becoming interested with Euclid's Elements. I saw a method that one could go through arguments step-by-step, and arrive at a conclusion. I apply that method in my philosphical work, A Short tract on First Principles. When the Civil war began in 1640 because world got around that I was a Royalist so I fled to Paris. During that time I published a lot of my works. Passages towards the end of the Leviathan reavealed that I was trying to make peace with the English government. I had also attacked the Roman Catholic Church which my my stay in Paris not so good... My work De Corpore contains a large amount of mathematical material. My mathematics is the study of quantity, and quantities are measure the measures of 3-dimensional bodies. I was not taken seriously at first by 1670, everyone began to take me seriously. I was 91 when I died and I spent my final years with the Cavendish family in which I was really close to. I lived a pretty successful life I might say.

Background info on my philosophy

I used to travel to different European countries to study different forms of government. During this time, I got fantasized by why people allowed themselves to rule (in addition that all humans are selfish and ignorant beings that do anything to possible make their positions more "worthy" than others. Foolish competition if you ask me) and what would be the most successful type of government. In my work, Leviathan, I stated how people are naturally wicked and could not be trusted to rule. I fully believe that absolute monarchy is the way to go and in being dead, my perspective on this topic has not changed. Having government in rule over the people is a better alternative because it prevents the overtaking of evil motives created by the people to take hold on. It keeps us in check pretty much. As you can tell, a democracy is a "no go" for me. Having a diverse group of representatives in rule next to the king will help prevent him from being cruel and unfair. People, in some ways, would have there voices heard ,but all final decisions are made in favor of the ruler.

Main lines of my Philosophy

Hey, Hobbes here. I feel it's necessary to restate my, as some would say, "philosophy". Call of it as you will, but here it goes. Let me start off by saying my vision for the world is pretty original and relevant to the basic line of politics. Something that has always been my main concern  ever since I was alive had to deal with our social and political order. A question I would occasionally ponder on would be how humans can live together in peace and avoid the danger of fear and civil conflict. Of course, even when I was living, it was a mire impossibility for this question to be fully answered. For there is no true answer, but I was thinking of a possible solution that I feel could work. We should give our obedience to a powered sovereignty (aka a person/ group empowered to decide every social and political issue.) Otherwise, we await something that resembles civil war. In the sense that all we fear of is violent death and human cooperation is all but impossible.