A Hobbes Dictionary

A Hobbes Dictionary
Title A Hobbes Dictionary PDF eBook
Author Aloysius Martinich
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
Pages 336
Release 1995-01-01
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780631192619

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Thomas Hobbes is one of the first great modern philosophers. In developing a unified and comprehensive theory of the natural world, the nature of human beings, and politics, Hobbes's intellectual work ranged over philosophy, political theory, science, theology, history and mathematics. In particular, his version of the social contract theory is one of the enduring intellectual achievements of modern political and moral thought. This dictionary provides a comprehensive expository account of over one hundred and thirty key concepts covering the entire range of Hobbes's thought. Extensively cross-referenced, the volume also includes a biography of Hobbes, a chronology of his life and works, a chronology of historical events in the early and mid-seventeenth century, and an annotated bibliography of Hobbes's major works, contemporary editions, and main secondary literature.

A Hobbes Dictionary

A Hobbes Dictionary
Title A Hobbes Dictionary PDF eBook
Author Aloysius P. Martinich
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Pages 336
Release 1998
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Historical Dictionary of Hobbes's Philosophy

Historical Dictionary of Hobbes's Philosophy
Title Historical Dictionary of Hobbes's Philosophy PDF eBook
Author Juhana Lemetti
Publisher Scarecrow Press
Pages 435
Release 2012
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0810850656

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The Historical Dictionary of Hobbes's Philosophy offers a comprehensive guide to the many facets of Hobbes's work. Through its chronology, introductory essay, bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on concepts, people, works, and technical terms, Hobbes's impact on philosophy and related fields is made accessible to the reader in this must-have reference. Intended as a reference to learn about particular aspects of Hobbes, it also serves as a quick guide to check information and find the relevant secondary literature on Hobbes. It is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Thomas Hobbes.

Hobbes

Hobbes
Title Hobbes PDF eBook
Author A.P. Martinich
Publisher Routledge
Pages 282
Release 2013-01-11
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1135180792

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Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was the first great English philosopher and one of the most important theorists of human nature and politics in the history of Western thought. This superlative introduction presents Hobbes' main doctrines and arguments, covering all of Hobbes' philosophy. A.P. Martinich begins with a helpful overview of Hobbes' life and work, setting his ideas against the political and scientific background of seventeenth-century England. He then introduces and assesses, in clear chapters, Hobbes' contributions to fundamental areas of philosophy: epistemology and metaphysics, in particular Hobbes' materialism and determinism and his relation to Descartes ethics and political philosophy, concentrating on Hobbes' most famous work, Leviathan, and the theory of the social contract it advances philosophy of science, logic and language, considering Hobbes' theory of nominalism and his writing on rhetoric and the uses of language; religion, examining Hobbes' analyses of revelation, prophets and miracles. The final chapter considers the legacy of Hobbes' thought and his influence on contemporary philosophy.

Leviathan

Leviathan
Title Leviathan PDF eBook
Author Thomas Hobbes
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 418
Release 2012-10-03
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 048612214X

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Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures were in flux and open to interpretation, Leviathan played an essential role in the development of the modern world.

The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes

The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes
Title The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes PDF eBook
Author Tom Sorell
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 420
Release 1996-01-26
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780521422444

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The most convenient, accessible guide to Hobbes available.

Rousseau and Hobbes

Rousseau and Hobbes
Title Rousseau and Hobbes PDF eBook
Author Robin Douglass
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 241
Release 2015-02-12
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0191038024

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Robin Douglass presents the first comprehensive study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's engagement with Thomas Hobbes. He reconstructs the intellectual context of this engagement to reveal the deeply polemical character of Rousseau's critique of Hobbes and to show how Rousseau sought to expose that much modern natural law and doux commerce theory was, despite its protestations to the contrary, indebted to a Hobbesian account of human nature and the origins of society. Throughout the book Douglass explores the reasons why Rousseau both followed and departed from Hobbes in different places, while resisting the temptation to present him as either a straightforwardly Hobbesian or anti-Hobbesian thinker. On the one hand, Douglass reveals the extent to which Rousseau was occupied with problems of a fundamentally Hobbesian nature and the importance, to both thinkers, of appealing to the citizens' passions in order to secure political unity. On the other hand, Douglass argues that certain ideas at the heart of Rousseau's philosophy—free will and the natural goodness of man—were set out to distance him from positions associated with Hobbes. Douglass advances an original interpretation of Rousseau's political philosophy, emerging from this encounter with Hobbesian ideas, which focuses on the interrelated themes of nature, free will, and the passions. Douglass distances his interpretation from those who have read Rousseau as a proto-Kantian and instead argues that his vision of a well-ordered republic was based on cultivating man's naturally good passions to render the life of the virtuous citizen in accordance with nature.