UID:
almafu_9959870219202883
Format:
1 online resource (345 p.)
ISBN:
1-283-87411-3
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1-4411-6404-9
Series Statement:
Bloomsbury companions
Content:
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is widely held to be one of the most important thinkers in the history of philosophy. His contributions to ethics, political philosophy and psychology in particular were hugely innovative and he was regarded by his contemporaries as a major intellectual figure. This comprehensive and accessible guide to Hobbes's life and work features 120 specially commissioned entries written by a team of leading experts in the field of seventeenth-century philosophy and political thought, covering every aspect of Hobbes's ideas. The Companion presents a comprehensive overview of the
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Editors Introduction; 1. LIFE AND TIMES; CHILDHOOD; CIVIL WAR; EDUCATION; HISTORICAL CONTEXT; INFLUENCES; PATRONS AND FRIENDS; WORKS; 2. METHOD, SCIENCE, AND PHILOSOPHY; BODY; CAUSE; EXPERIENCE; EXPERIMENTATION; GAME THEORETIC INTERPRETATIONS; GEOMETRY; LOGIC; MATERIALISM; MOTION; NECESSITY AND CONTINGENCY; OPTICS; PASSIONS; PLENUM; REASON AND REASONING; REASONING, INSTRUMENTAL; RESOLUTIVE-COMPOSITIVE METHOD; SPACE; TIME; 3. METAPHYSICS, EPISTEMOLOGY, AND LANGUAGE; BELIEF; DEFINITION; HISTORY AND HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE
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KNOWLEDGELANGUAGE; MEANING; NAMES AND UNIVERSALS; OPINION; RATIOCINATION; RHETORIC; SENSATION AND PERCEPTION; 4. MORAL PHILOSOPHY AND MORAL PSYCHOLOGY; APPETITE AND AVERSION; HOBBES ON DELIBERATION AND THE WILL; DUTY AND OBLIGATION; EGOISM; GLORY, VAINGLORY, AND PRIDE; GOOD AND EVIL; HUMAN NATURE; LAW OF NATURE; PRUDENCE AND SAPIENCE; RIGHT OF NATURE; SELF-PRESERVATION; 5. POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND LAW; ABSOLUTISM; ADJUDICATION; AUTHORIZATION AND ALIENATION; HOBBES AND CITIZENSHIP; CIVIL LAW; COMMONWEALTH; DUTIES OF SUBJECTS AND SOVEREIGNS; EDUCATION; EQUALITY; EQUITY; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
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LAWS OF NATURELEGAL INTERPRETATION; LIBERTY; MONARCHY AND OTHER FORMS OF GOVERNMENT; OBLIGATION; PARENTAL AUTHORITY; POWER; PRIVATE JUDGMENT; PUNISHMENT; RESISTANCE AND NON-RESISTANCE; RIGHT TO REVOLUTION?; RIGHTS; SOCIAL CONTRACT; SOVEREIGN; STATE OF NATURE; SUBJECTS; TAXATION AND TRADE; WAR AND PEACE; 6. RELIGION; ANGLICANISM; ECCLESIOLOGY; EPISCOPACY; ERASTIANISM; GOD; THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND HELL; MIRACLES; NATURAL RELIGION; PRESBYTERIANS; REVELATION; SCRIPTURE; SUPERSTITION; WORSHIP; 7. ENDURING DEBATES AND OPEN QUESTIONS; HOBBESIAN CONTRACTARIANISM-ORTHODOX AND REVISIONIST
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HOBBES AND FEMINISMHOW DID HOBBES THINK OF THE EXISTENCE AND NATURE OF GOD?: DE MOTU, LOCO ET TEMPORE AS A TURNING POINT IN HOBBES'S PHILOSOPHICAL CAREER; HOBBES: PATRIARCH OF LEGAL POSITIVISM, OR REINVENTOR OF NATURAL LAW?; HOBBES IN THE HISTORY OF RIGHTS THEORY; SUBJECTS, SERVANTS, AND SLAVES: HOBBES ON SOVEREIGNTY BY CONQUEST; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4742-4765-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4411-9045-7
Language:
English
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