KnowraThomas HobbesLinked fromLinked fromThe 44 pages that link to Thomas Hobbes, each with the reason it gives.All 44Broader topic 1Related 30Compared with 13John LockeCompared with: Hobbes’s political theory provides a sharp contrast with Locke’s account of consent and resistance.Jean-Jacques RousseauCompared with: Rousseau rejects Hobbes’s portrayal of natural humanity as driven by competition and fear.Adam SmithCompared with: Smith’s account of social order gave greater weight to sympathy, custom, and exchange than Hobbes’s account of sovereign power.Natural rightsCompared with: Hobbes grounded natural liberty in self-preservation but drew different conclusions about sovereign power.Robert BoyleCompared with: Hobbes criticized the Royal Society’s experimental practices, which Boyle defended.MontesquieuCompared with: Hobbes grounds political order in concentrated sovereignty, unlike Montesquieu’s emphasis on divided power.John MiltonCompared with: Hobbes’s defense of sovereignty contrasts with Milton’s republican political commitments.Consent of the governedCompared with: His social contract grounds authority in authorization but permits a far more powerful sovereign.CartesianismCompared with: His materialism opposes Cartesian separation of thinking substance from matter.Nicolas MalebrancheCompared with: Hobbes’s materialism contrasts with Malebranche’s distinction between spiritual minds and extended matter.Noble savageCompared with: His account reverses the trope’s image of naturally peaceful people corrupted by society.The Theory of Moral SentimentsCompared with: Smith’s account of social sympathy differs from Hobbes’s stronger emphasis on self-interest and conflict.Adam FergusonCompared with: Ferguson emphasized social life and civic activity rather than grounding political order chiefly in contract.