id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5608 Thomas Hobbes - Wikipedia .html text/html 9630 1455 67 Thomas Hobbes (/hɒbz/ HOBZ; sometimes known as Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury;[4] 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher, considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy.[5][6] Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory.[7] In addition to political philosophy, Hobbes contributed to a diverse array of other fields, including history, jurisprudence, geometry, the physics of gases, theology, and ethics, as well as philosophy in general. Hobbes came back home, in 1637, to a country riven with discontent, which disrupted him from the orderly execution of his philosophic plan.[19] However, by the end of the Short Parliament in 1640, he had written a short treatise called The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5608.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5608.txt