Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction
Author(s): Richard Tuck
Thomas Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, has had the reputation of being a pessimistic atheist. This study evaluates Hobbes's philosophy, describing him to have been passionately concerned with the refutation of scepticism, and to have developed a theory of knowledge, which rivalled that of Descartes in its importance.
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"Review from previous edition "lucid introduction to the first great English political philosopher."--The Times
THE LIFE OF A HUMANIST; The life of a philosopher; The life of a heretic; SCIENCE; Ethics; Politics; Religion; HOBBES AS A MODERN NATURAL LAW THEORIST; Hobbes as the demon of modernity; Hobbes as the social scientist; Hobbes as a moralist; Hobbes today; CONCLUSION
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- : 0.154
- : 30 May 2002
- : 174mm X 111mm X 10mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
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- : Richard Tuck
- : Paperback
- : 192
- : 168
- : 11 halftones