Thomas Hobbes
philosopher · 4 mentions across 4 readings
In this course
Hobbes appears as a foundational reference for thinking about power, sovereignty, and the social contract in contexts where the course examines how cybernetics and control systems inherit or reimagine his theories of state order. The excerpts suggest he's invoked when tracing how modern discourse on power and social organization—including eugenic and cybernetic experiments—extends or perverts Hobbesian frameworks of managed coercion and collective security. His political philosophy provides historical scaffolding for understanding how 20th-century attempts to "program" society through cybernetics or biopolitics revisit the problem of artificial order that Hobbes originally posed.
Background
Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher and political theorist, best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. He is considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy.
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