What philosophers has Thomas Hobbes influence?

Answer 1

Not an easy question. Hobbes is sure that in a state of nature the lives of men were solitary, nasty, brutish, short, presided over by violence. For this reason, they enter into a contract with the ruler or Government for their own good. The ruler has absolute power ever after (in John Locke he always governs wtih the consent of the governed) but Hobbes is sure the ruler will govern in the larger public interest, even though he has not been elected, because his views are more enlightened. Hobbes was a tutor to a prince and supported the absolute power of the Stuart monarchs: the divine right of kings.
Now for his influence. Any political philosopher who believes in an absolute state, that there is no limit to his power may be considered a disciple of Hobbes, although others before Hobbes had championed an absolute state. His age was the age of Louis the Fourteenth, possibly the most absolute of rulers in modern times. One may say in support of Hobbes that the age of Louis was an age of tremendous achievment.
When I looked up the subject I found that the only philosophers consciously influenced by Hobbes were the Utilitarians Jeremy Bentham and James Mill. They considered the greatest good of the greatest number the overriding purpose of Government, and thought that it would carry out this goal for its own preservation. Furthermore, it is said that just as Hobbes argued that men, motivated by their own future happiness, entered into a contract with the ruler who then promoted it, so Utilitarians seem to have assumed that Goverment would, or at any rate should, operate along these lines. And they, like Hobbes, emphasize the role of rationality--that men consciously pursue their happiness.
Was Karl Marx influenced in his theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat by Hobbes, in the broader sense of influence? I don't know. The British political theorist Micahel Oakeshott has written an extensive introduction to Hobbes' masterpiece, "The Leviathan," from which there is much to be learned.

Answer 2

THomas Hobbes Influenced todays society because hes awesome

Answer 3

tirum whatever also forgot important philosophers such as Nietzsche who used Leviathan to divert from tradition and stress the importance of the individual. He also forgot Hobbes key opponent, Rousseau who revolted against Hobbes' ideas and kickstarted Romanticism.