The father had a reputation for being quarrelsome, and after an altercation and court case he fled the area in 1604. My mother hearing of the Spanish Armada sailing up the English channel gave premature birth to me'. Hobbes said of himself that 'Fear and I were born twins. Hobbes was born in the Wiltshire town of Malmesbury where his father, Thomas senior, was a curate.
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Without that central authority things fall apart into anarchy or war, which destroys all possible civic life and prosperity. At the heart of his account is the idea of a social contract: a cement which binds together the atoms of society - individual persons - in a mutually advantageous agreement to accept a central authority, the function of which is to provide the conditions under which individuals may flourish. When Thomas Hobbes published Leviathan in 1651, he set a model for the understanding of the nature, purpose and justification of government, according to principles which could for the first time be characterised as 'scientific'.
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