Aristotle vs. Hobbes, constitutes a debate between two great thinkers from two profoundly different periods of time. Whereas Aristotle (384 - 322 BCE) had been a part of the Greek's and more precisely, Athens's Golden Age, Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679) had lived through the English Civil War of 1640s to become one of the most influential philosophers. Based on their own personal experiences and surroundings, both Aristotle and Hobbes had developed a view of what human equality should …showed first 75 words of 2371 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2371 total…room for equality and opportunity that the subjects of a good sovereign would experience to be available to them, in comparison to Aristotle's hierarchical division of people into natural superiors, inferiors and slaves, who are given very limited achievements and opportunities Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Modern Political Thought - Readings from Machiavelli to Nietzsche. Ed. David Wooton. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.: Indianapolis/Cambridge, 1996. Aristotle. The Politics. C.D.C. Reeve. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.: Indianapolis/Cambridge.