Statistics for Philosopher Quizzes 1 - Thomas Hobbes

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Country of Hobbes' birth	England	100%
Sea monster for which Hobbes' most famous work is named	Leviathan	84%
Famous college in that country that Hobbes attended	Oxford	84%
Conflict beginning in 1642 that caused Hobbes to flee the country	English Civil War	79%
Like many political theorists, Hobbes believed in a social ________	contract	74%
Lord Protector of Hobbes' home country following that conflict	Oliver Cromwell	74%
City to which Hobbes fled	Paris	74%
Any one of the five words Hobbes used to describe man's life in this state	Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short	68%
The state of man outside of the political community, as Hobbes calls it	Nature/Natural	58%
Name of the historian whose account of the Peloponnesian War Hobbes translated	Thucydides	58%
What Hobbes considered the "summum malum," man's greatest fear	violent death	47%
Hobbes believed in the supremacy of this	The Sovereign	42%
Hobbes' first major original work, "Elements of ___"	Law	37%
Hobbes begins his theory by describing man as "Matter in ______"	motion	32%
Hobbes strove to apply objective, ________ principles to matters of politics	scientific	32%
Hobbes describes his ideal state as an "Artificial ___"	man	26%
Hobbes' primary source of employment prior to venturing into philosophy	tutoring	11%