Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was one of the founding fathers of modern philosophy. An Englishman, Hobbes was heavily influenced by his country's civil war and wrote his preeminent work, Leviathan, about the relationship between the individual and the goernment during that period. Hobbes was a scholar, phauthoilosopher, and the author of several works on political and religious philosophy. Read More Read Less