Format:
1 Online-Ressource (225 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0813154677
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0813164524
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1322601119
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9780813154671
,
9780813164526
,
9781322601113
Content:
Two principal issues interact and overlap in this penetrating analysis: the relationship between Hobbes' natural philosophy and his civil philosophy, and the relationship between Hobbes' thought and the Aristotelian world view that constituted the philosophical orthodoxy he rejected. On the first point Thomas A. Spragens Jr. argues that Hobbes' political ideas were in fact significantly influenced by his cosmological perceptions, although they were not, and could not have been, completely derived from that source. On the second, the author demonstrates that Hobbes undertook a highly systematic
Content:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; PREFACE; FOREWORD; 1. Hobbes the Philosopher; 2. Inertia and the End of the Finite Cosmos; 3. The Corporealization of Substance; 4. The Disordering of Nature; 5. A New Science and Political Deliverance; 6. Passion and the Politics of Containment; 7. Conclusion and Methodological Postscript; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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English
Additional Edition:
Print version Spragens, Thomas A. Jr Politics of Motion : The World of Thomas Hobbes Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 ISBN 9780813154671
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Spragens, Thomas A. The politics of motion Kentucky : Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1973 ISBN 0813112788
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813154671
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
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Philosophy
Keywords:
Hobbes, Thomas 1588-1679
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Philosophie
