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Thomas Hobbes
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17th-century English political philosopher, author of Leviathan, whose work inadvertently revived interest in Machiavelli.
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mention·Dwarkesh·JUNE 16, 2026
“In the aftermath of publishing Leviathan, there's a 40-year period where the sole goal of Western European philosophy is coming up with a good way to refute Hobbes. And in that moment, they say, okay, Hobbes is using a lot of logics about politics and about history that sound like Machiavelli.”
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