Question

Which of the following Enlightenment thinkers was exiled from his home country for being too outspoken against the nobility of the country?
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Voltaire

Answer 1

Answer:

Thomas Hobbes

Explanation:

Hobbes was more praised and censored than any other thinker of his time. The first effect of his publication was to break his link with the exiled realists, who might well have killed him. The secularist spirit of his book greatly angered both Anglicans and French Catholics. Hobbes appealed to the English revolutionary government for his protection and fled to London in the winter of 1651. After his submission to the Council of State, he was allowed to immerse himself in private life on Fetter Lane.

Answer 2

Thomas Hobbes was exiled from is home country and remained there for 11 years.