He was not much impressed by either of them, and set about trying to construct a science of politics, based, not on guesswork or traditional allegiances, but on solid 'first principles' of language and received religion. When he returned to England in 1637 he found the country seething with political unrest and the beginnings of a civil war between the 'Royalists' with their belief in the divine right of kings, and the egalitarian-minded 'Parliamentarians'. But he found a position as tutor in the aristocratic Cavendish family, and with them he travelled in Europe. He showed very little interest in the strict scholastic philosophy of the time and took around six years to complete his degree. Thomas did not seem to have fitted in well at university in Oxford. Thomas Hobbes was the son of a Wiltshire priest who abandoned his children and fled after being involved in a fight with another clergyman. Wikipedia - Full Text - Print Edition: ISBN 0199537283 ".the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" Squashed down to read in about 75 minutes Squashed Philosophers - Hobbes - Leviathan
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