Talk:Thomas Hobbes

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Early life
The Early life section wrote:

Having been born prematurely when his mother heard of the coming invasion of the Spanish Armada, ...

How? Since

The Spanish Armada, the Spanish fleet of 130 ships sailed from Corunna in late May 1588.

How his mother heard of the coming invasion in the early April 1588? --Diszi (talk) 06:08, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Opposition: Cambridge Platonists
I know that the Cambridge Platonists — Ralph Cudworth in particular — opposed Hobbes and his contention that morality is sanctioned by the state.

"Cudworth’s critique of Hobbes is the most extensive and philosophical of contemporary responses to Hobbes, whom he attacks as an atheist materialist (Mintz 1962, Zarka 1997). He accuses Hobbes of “villanizing of human nature”, and treating morality is a matter of convention. He attacks his natural law theory as merely “artificiall justice” without foundation in natural goodness, charging that Hobbes’s negative conception of human nature renders civil government a necessary evil, void of true justice. He regarded Hobbes’s natural philosophy as a paradigm case of deterministic materialism. And he attacked Hobbes’s mechanistic account of mental operations, arguing that if all mental activity reduces to matter in motion, we could never stop the flow of thoughts, focus our minds on anything, or direct our attention. The fact that we can do so tells against Hobbesian psychology and confirms the agency non-material powers." — The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy SpicyMemes123 (talk) 04:25, 24 April 2022 (UTC)