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Hobbes died in 1679 and the philosopher David Hume was born a few years later in 1711. It’s an unfree act if, say, someone has a gun to your head and is forcing you to do something! Our freedoms under a government are somewhere between the two. In other words, as Philosopher Peter Millican (University of Oxford) puts it, to be free means there is nothing to stop you doing what you want. So we swap our complete freedom for safety and security. For Hobbes, the only way humans can get themselves out of the natural state of fear and violence is to give up freedom and make a social contract with others to accept a central authority, a government. Hobbes' philosophy dominated the 17th century and continues to have an influence today. The country was very unstable for a while which may be why Hobbes came up with the phrase he’s most remembered for: human lives are, “Nasty, brutish and short” - unless you have a central government in place. He lived during the times of the English Civil War (1642-1651), which divided the nation as people took opposing sides for and against the monarchy. Thomas Hobbes is an English philosopher who many people think of as the founder of modern political philosophy. This is a puzzle philosophers have been struggling with for a long time. So can it be possible to be both free and safe? But the overweight boy with him, who has asthma, really poor eyesight and is cruelly nicknamed 'Piggy', is extremely worried at the idea of no one (responsible) being in charge.Īnd so where one person sees freedom, another feels fear. “No grown ups!” says the main character Ralph, dancing in the sand with joy. Many of them were excited to be free at last. in the novel ‘Lord Of The Flies’ (by William Golding), a group of young schoolboys were abandoned on a desert island without any adults. Taking this a stage further and into the land of fantasy. Would that be a good experience for most of the students there? 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