AP+TS+2013+Thomas+Hobbes

Aim (Alexis) Aim: The English Philosopher Thomas Hobbs revolutionized modern political philosophy as we know it today. After completing his law degree in the early 1700s, Hobbes began to explore the connection between how people asso ciate power. Hobbes point that he was trying to get across was that boundaries can not hold people into one specific mold. Hobbes was interested in how language worked and shaped our own philosophies. Each of his own books shared a similar loose structure,"he begins with questions about mind and language, and works towards questions in political philosophy." (Hobbes)A century after Hobbes, John Locke (another noted political philosophist) began to realize and explore the question of " how can human beings live together, when religious or traditional justifications of authority are no longer effective or persuasive? How is political authority justified and how far does it extend?" (Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy) Hobbes was able to shape how we think of modern political philosophies today.

Works Cited: http://www.iep.utm.edu/hobmoral/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hobbes/#2