... thorough materialism offended the churchmen, so that in 1651 he felt impelled to return to England, where he was able to live peacefully and write his political manuscripts. In the Leviathan, Hobbes developed his political philosophy. He argued from a mechanistic view that life is simply the motions of the organism and that man is by nature a selfishly individualistic animal at constant ... ...

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