Political Science · Western Political Thought
Which great thinker was deliberately ignored by Hobbes?
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BAristotle ✓ Correct
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DSt. Augustine
Correct answer: (B) Aristotle — Hobbes deliberately ignored and broke with Aristotle.
Explanation
★Hobbes deliberately ignored and broke with Aristotle.
★He rejected the Aristotelian view that man is naturally a political and social animal.
★For Hobbes, by contrast, society is artificial and created only by contract.
★He blamed the dominance of Aristotle in the universities for much confused thinking.
★His mechanical and materialist method is the opposite of Aristotle's teleology.
★Aristotle is the classical thinker most invoked by modern theorists, so Hobbes' rejection stands out.
★So the thinker Hobbes consciously set aside is Aristotle.
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