Thomas Hobbes has long had the reputation of being a pessimistic atheist, who saw human nature as evil and proposed a totalitarian state to subdue human failing... » 

Thomas Hobbes has long had the reputation of being a pessimistic atheist, who saw human nature as evil and proposed a totalitarian state to subdue human failings. In this study, Richard Tuck re-evaluates Hobbes' philosophy, revealing him to have been concerned with the refutation of scepticism. «