PHI 2174 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Irish Confederate Wars, Scottish Reformation, Scientific Method
28 Jul 2016
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(9) social contact ethics - thomas hobbes of malmesbury (1588-1670, 91yrs) He was born prematurely when his mother heard of the coming invasion of the spanish. Hobbes later reported that my mother gave birth to twins: myself and fear". Conquering of the colonies: when groups that are unknown to each other come into contact, conflict, war, and aggression begin. He translated thucydides" history of the peloponnesian war (1628). He supported the royalists, who favored a monarch, in the english civil war against the. The possibility that we have free will, hobbes believed, is stupid. He was preoccupied by the scientific method and so his method followed a sort of certainty. Habsburg, austria and bohemia, france, denmark, and sweden: the wars of the three kingdoms (1639 1651), affecting england, scotland, and. Ireland: scottish reformation and civil wars, english reformation and civil war, irish confederate wars and the cromwellian conquest of ireland.
