Hobbes publishes Leviathan, a seminal philosophical text
Leviathan rigorously argues that civil peace and social unity are best achieved by the establishment of a commonwealth through social contract.
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Aristotle speculates about the existence of the South Pole, becoming perhaps the first to do so
Aristotle speculated, “Now since there must be a region bearing the same relation to the southern pole as the place we live in bears to our pole…”.
Confucius, a great Chinese philosopher, is born
Confucianism is a philosophical system encompassing ideology, culture and academia, brought together by Confucius, then followed and developed by successive generations of his disciples over the past 2,500 years.