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en-wikipedia-org-5815		British philosophy - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4464	607	57	Hobbes was a champion of absolutism for the sovereign but he also developed some of the fundamentals of European liberal thought: the right of the individual; the natural equality of all men; the artificial character of the political order (which led to the later distinction between civil society and the state); the view that all legitimate political power must be "representative" and based on the consent of the people; and a liberal interpretation of law which leaves people free to do whatever the law does not explicitly forbid.[17] Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of fields, including history, geometry, physics of gases, theology, ethics, general philosophy, and political science. The three 'classic' British empiricists in the early modern era were John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume. Analytic philosophy was based on traditional British empiricism, updated to accommodate the new developments in logic pioneered by German mathematician Gottlob Frege.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5815.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5815.txt