Thomas Hobbes

My name Thomas Hobbes(Dan Hasan). I was born April 5th 1588 in WestPort Wiltshire, England. I was born prematurely when my mother heard the coming invasion of the Spanish Armada. My mother gave birth to twins myself and fear. My childhood was a blur and didn't even know my mother's name. My father of course was the vicar of both Charleston and WestPort. Then there was uncle Francis, a wealthy man but with no family of his own. At a young age my father had left me in the care of my uncle. After uncle had got involved in a squabble with the clergyman in front of church he was forced to flee England. From the age of four I was educated at WestPort Church. After that I passed to the Malmesbury school and then to a private school kept by a young man named Robert Latimer. I was a graduate of Oxford University. I was a talented pupil, but the man that had the most influence on me was a Puritan named John Wilkinson. My first area of study was an interest in the physical doctrine of motion and physical momentum. After my studies in college I returned to England. In 1640, I had written a short treatise called The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic. It was not published and only circulated among my acquaintances in manuscript form. But my most successful book was the Leviathan. In Leviathan I set out my doctrine of the foundation of states and legitimate governments. I wrote during the civil war and it's main idea is that there needs to be a strong central authority such as a monarch. What's stopping me from killing you right now? The law, the law is what keeps us in order.It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. There needs to be an absolute monarchy because there is no other correct way to rule. Every man and woman is born greedy and selfish. Everyone has a demon inside them, and if you don't believe this your a fool. If you think people help others out of the goodness in their heart your probably so unintelligent you have probably tricked yourself into believing  it's true. Men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.