![]() Some of the lines are very thought through in terms of the rhythms-that’s obviously true of the famous one, “… and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” He had a walking stick with a special compartment where he could put notes. ![]() Actually, there’s a theory about that, that he used to write it when he was out for a walk and write little notes on bits of paper that he joined together. The Leviathan is written in English in very powerful, forceful prose. He sets the tone for the way philosophy develops later in English-largely thanks to his masterpiece, the Leviathan. It’s in this period that people start writing in the vernacular, and Hobbes is the one who writes philosophy in English in a way that is systematic and has a huge subsequent impact. He is credited with creating English language philosophy, because up until that point in Europe, the predominant tradition was to write philosophy in Latin. ![]() Thomas Hobbes was a 17th century English philosopher.
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