Hobbist
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who follows the doctrines of Thomas Hobbes; a Hobbesian.
"[I]f a Chriſtian, vvho has the view of Happineſs and Miſery in another Life, be asked vvhy a Man muſt keep his VVord, he vvill give this as a Reaſon: Becauſe God, vvho has the Povver of eternal Life and Death, requires it of us. But if an Hobbiſt be asked vvhy; he vvill anſvver, Becauſe the Publick requires it, and the Leviathan vvill puniſh you, if you do not."
- 1 Hobbesian.
"He had a Hobbist vision of ‘the whole world consuming in the fire of envy one against another’, from which quietism was the only escape."
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More examples"[I]f a Chriſtian, vvho has the view of Happineſs and Miſery in another Life, be asked vvhy a Man muſt keep his VVord, he vvill give this as a Reaſon: Becauſe God, vvho has the Povver of eternal Life and Death, requires it of us. But if an Hobbiſt be asked vvhy; he vvill anſvver, Becauſe the Publick requires it, and the Leviathan vvill puniſh you, if you do not."
Etymology
From Hobbes + -ist.
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