Hobbistとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

Hobbist (plural Hobbists)

1. One who follows the doctrines of Thomas Hobbes; a Hobbesian.

   Synonyms: Hobbesian, Hobbesist

   • 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], “No Innate Practical Principles”, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book I, § 5, page 17:

     [I]f a Chriſtian, vvho has the view of Happineſs and Miſery in another Life, be asked vvhy a Man muſt keep his VVord, he vvill give this as a Reaſon: Becauſe God, vvho has the Povver of eternal Life and Death, requires it of us. But if an Hobbiſt be asked vvhy; he vvill anſvver, Becauſe the Publick requires it, and the Leviathan vvill puniſh you, if you do not.

   • 1690, Richard Baxter, The English Nonconformity, As under King Charles II. and King James II. Truly Stated and Argued […] , page 265:

     Many of the accused were Hobbists and Infidels, and some common ill-living Protestants: Shall all the Hobbists, and Infidels, and ill-living Protestants be Extirpated for their faults?

形容詞

Hobbist (comparative more Hobbist, superlative most Hobbist)

1. Hobbesian.
   • 1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 177:

     He had a Hobbist vision of ‘the whole world consuming in the fire of envy one against another’, from which quietism was the only escape.

アナグラム

• hobbits