Thomas Hobbes’ Death – Cause and Date
Born (Birthday) April 5, 1588
Death Date December 4, 1679
Age of Death 91 years
Cause of Death Stroke
Place of Death National Trust - Hardwick Hall, United Kingdom
Place of Burial St. John the Baptist Church, Ault Hucknall
Profession Philosopher
The philosopher Thomas Hobbes died at the age of 91. Here is all you want to know and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
Seventeenth-century philosopher whose master work, Leviathan, was a key text in the development of political philosophy in the Western world.
He studied at Magdalen Hall, Oxford. One of his first philosophical publications was a 1640 treatise entitled “The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic.”
He is famous for his commentary on the natural state of man: life, he said, is lonely, cruel, and too brief.
How did Thomas Hobbes die?
In October 1679 Hobbes suffered a bladder disorder, and then a paralytic stroke, from which he died on 4 December 1679, aged 91, at Hardwick Hall, owned by the Cavendish family.
Quotes
""When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death."
""The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living."
""Words are the money of fools."
""Curiosity is the lust of the mind."
""A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him."