A companion to Hobbes /
"Thomas Hobbes is widely considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Although best known for his seminal book Leviathan, Hobbes produced a wide range of writings, from translations of texts by Homer and Thucydides, to interpretations of Biblical books, to works devoted...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, NJ :
Wiley Blackwell,
2021.
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to philosophy.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Thomas Hobbes is widely considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Although best known for his seminal book Leviathan, Hobbes produced a wide range of writings, from translations of texts by Homer and Thucydides, to interpretations of Biblical books, to works devoted to geometry, optics, morality, and religion. Hobbes viewed himself as a systematic philosopher-- presenting a unified method for theoretcial and practical science. In this new Companion, a panel of leading scholars provides close textual engagement with the thoughts of Thomas Hobbes while philosophically probing his viewpoints concerning natural philosophy, mathematics, human nature, civil philosophy, religion, and more. This skillfully curated collecction of essays presents readers with a number of entry points into Hobbe's thoght and across his interconnected system of philosophy. Throughout the text, readers gain an appreciation of the unity and diversity of Hobbes's philosophy as they explore the reception of Hobbes by thinkers such as Rene Descartes, Margaret Cavendish, David Hume, and Immanuel Kant. A Companion to Hobbes is an invaluable resource for all scholars and advanced students of early modern thought seeking to investigate the connecting points between Hobbes's metaphysics, epistemology, mathematics, natural philosophy, morality, and civil philosophy-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 521 pages.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781119635079 (electronic bk.) 1119635071 (electronic bk.) |