Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes

1. Who said,’ it is not wisdom but authority makes a law’: 

a) John Locke

b) Machiavelli

c) Thomas Hobbes

d) Rosseau

Ans: c) Thomas Hobbes

2. Who among the following is an English philosopher:

a) Aristotle

b) Rousseau

c) Machiavelli

d) Thomas Hobbes

Ans: d) Thomas Hobbes

3. Which of the following is/are the major works of Thomas Hobbes:

a) De homine

b) Leviathan

c) The Cive

d) All of the above

Ans: d) All of the above

4. The book Leviathan was published in:

a) 1651

b) 1650

c) 1652

d) 1653

Ans: a) 1651

5. Who is the chief exponent of ‘divine right of the king’:

a) Plato

b) Aristotle

c) Hobbes

d) Robert Filmer

Ans: d) Robert Filmer

6. Which following political thinker is an early exponent of ‘individualism’ and ends up as a champion on of ‘absolutism’:
a) Locke
b) Hobbes
c) Plato
d) Machiavelli

Ans: b) Hobbes

6.Hobbes was inspired by:
a) Galileo’s Theory of Motion
b) Aristotle’s concept of Justice
c) Machiavelli’s art of statecraft
d) None of these

Ans: a) Galileo’s Theory of Motion

8. Who said, Life of man is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short”:
a) Locke
b) Hobbes
c) Plato
d) Machiavelli

Ans: b) Hobbes

9. Who defined Sovereignty as ‘ supreme power over citizens and subjects, unrestrained by law’:
a) Locke
b) Hobbes
c) Plato
d) Jean Bodin

Ans: d) Jean Bodin

10. The Hobbesian social contract is based on:
a) Desire for peace 
b) Selfishness
c) Fear
d) Completion

Ans: a) Desire for peace 

11. ‘Leviathan’ is written by:
a) Locke
b) Hobbes
c) Plato
d) Machiavelli

Ans: b) Hobbes

12. Natural liberty is nothing but ‘self-preservation’:
 a) Locke
 b) Hobbes
 c) Plato
 d) Machiavelli

Ans: b) Hobbes

13. Who said, ‘ Hobbes’s morality is essentially a bourgeois morality’:
a) Barker
b) Sabine
c) Macpherson
d) None of these

Ans: c) Macpherson

Important books written by Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan (1651) De Cive (1642) De Corpore (1655) De Homine (1658) Behemoth (1668)

Important Quotes of Thomas Hobbes: –“Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy” -“The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone”. -“Curiosity is the lust of the mind”. -“It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law”. -“Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” -“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.” -“Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.”

Important Facts about Thomas Hobbes:

Thomas Hobbes born (5 April 1588-4 December 1679) was an English Philosopher.

• Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book Leviathan.
• Hobbes was influenced by Galileo’s Theory of Motion.
• Hobbes highlighted important concepts like:
• Human Nature
• State of Nature
• Absolute Sovereignty(Leviathan)
• Social Contract Theory

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