How Did Hobbes Contribute To Machiavelli

Many intellectual influences also shaped Hobbes’ ideas and philosophies. He collected ideas from classic works, and Calvinist psychology. He derived political philosophy that man want to possess things and human society is not naturally a collection of individuals who live together bound by the rules. He drew aspects from the scientific revolution such as Euclid’s method of deduction, the law of inertia, and many of Galileo’s discoveries. He was focused on arriving at self evident truths. Similarly to Machiavelli, Hobbes’ works are filled with ideas influenced by the violence that he witnessed in his lifetime.