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Okay, so this is Thomas Hobbes,
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and let me just very briefly talk about his life.
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I mentioned that--in the introductory lecture--
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he was born in 1588 in Westport.
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I also mentioned that his father was a vicar
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and he had actually a fistfight with a clergyman in,
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of all places, in a cemetery which was absolutely no-no by that time.
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So he had to skip and disappear and leave young Thomas behind
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in the care of an uncle who was actually a glover,produced gloves.
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And this all happened under the rule of Queen Elizabeth.
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I will talk about this a little later.
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In 1602, he went to Oxford, to Magdalene Hall,