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Thomas Hobbes.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (270 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781438457673
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Thomas HobbesLOC classification:
  • JC153.H66 -- .H644 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Thomas Hobbes: A Pioneer of Modernity -- 1.1. Three Challenges of the Epoch -- 1.2. A Pioneer in Three Senses -- 1.3. The Continuity of Hobbes's Development -- I. Hobbes's Career and Philosophical Development -- 2. Beginnings -- 2.1. Student, Tutor, and Traveling Companion -- 2.2. Euclid and Galileo -- 2.3. The English Civil War -- 2.4. Exile in Paris -- 3. Leviathan and Behemoth -- 3.1. A Fractured Relationship to Rhetoric -- 3.2. The Symbol of Leviathan -- 3.3. The Return to England -- II. The Encyclopedic Character of Hobbes's Philosophy -- 4. Science in the Service of Peace -- 4.1. The Principal Aim of Hobbes's Philosophy -- 4.2. The Complex Method -- 4.3. The Mathematical Paradigm and Its Limits -- 4.4. Ethics and Political Authority -- 4.5. Analysis and Composition -- 5. Natural Philosophy and the Theory of Knowledge -- 5.1. Empirical Realism -- 5.2. Levels of Knowledge -- 5.3. On Dreams -- 5.4. Prudence -- 6. Language, Reason, and Science -- 6.1. Language 1: The Pre-communicative Dimension -- 6.2. Language 2: The Political Dimension -- 6.3. Realism and Nominalism -- 6.4. The Framework of Language and Reason -- 6.5. Science -- 6.6. Hobbes's Division of the Sciences -- 7. An Anthropology of the Individual: The Passions -- 7.1. A Naturalistic Hedonism -- 7.2. A Topography of the Passions -- 7.3. Freedom, Self-Preservation, and Determinism -- 7.4. Power -- 8. An Anthropology of the Social: The Possibility of Peace in a Condition of War -- 8.1. The Conditions of Peace -- 8.2. "Man Is a Wolf to Man" -- 8.3. A Prevailing Inclination for Peace? -- 9. Legitimating the State -- 9.1. The Laws of Nature -- 9.2. A Moral Philosophy? -- 9.3. The Original Contract -- 9.4. Absolute Authority -- 9.5. A Right to Rebellion? -- 10. Law -- 10.1. "Not Truth but Authority" -- 10.2. The Division of Laws.
10.3. A Theory of Commands -- 10.4. Laws of Nature as a Corrective? -- 10.5. Authorized Power -- 11. Religion and Church -- 11.1. A Twofold Political Question -- 11.2. The Anthropological Foundations of Religion -- 11.3. The Kingdom of God -- 11.4. The Principles of a Christian Politics -- 11.5. A Materialistic Theology -- 11.6. Hobbes's Critique of Other Churches -- 12. An Excursus: Hobbes's Critique of Aristotle -- 12.1. The "Vain Philosophy" of Aristotle -- 12.2. An Aristotelian in Spite of Himself -- 12.3. Inevitable Strife or the Social Nature of Man? -- 13. History -- 13.1. Translating Thucydides -- 13.2. The History of the Church and the Kingdom of God -- 13.3. Behemoth -- III. The Influence of Hobbes -- 14. From His Age to Our Own -- 14.1. The Early Reception and Critique of Hobbes's Work -- 14.2. A Continuing Debate -- 14.3. The Modern Discussion -- Chronology of Hobbes's Life and Work -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
Summary: An introduction to Thomas Hobbes as a systematic and not merely political philosopher.
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Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Thomas Hobbes: A Pioneer of Modernity -- 1.1. Three Challenges of the Epoch -- 1.2. A Pioneer in Three Senses -- 1.3. The Continuity of Hobbes's Development -- I. Hobbes's Career and Philosophical Development -- 2. Beginnings -- 2.1. Student, Tutor, and Traveling Companion -- 2.2. Euclid and Galileo -- 2.3. The English Civil War -- 2.4. Exile in Paris -- 3. Leviathan and Behemoth -- 3.1. A Fractured Relationship to Rhetoric -- 3.2. The Symbol of Leviathan -- 3.3. The Return to England -- II. The Encyclopedic Character of Hobbes's Philosophy -- 4. Science in the Service of Peace -- 4.1. The Principal Aim of Hobbes's Philosophy -- 4.2. The Complex Method -- 4.3. The Mathematical Paradigm and Its Limits -- 4.4. Ethics and Political Authority -- 4.5. Analysis and Composition -- 5. Natural Philosophy and the Theory of Knowledge -- 5.1. Empirical Realism -- 5.2. Levels of Knowledge -- 5.3. On Dreams -- 5.4. Prudence -- 6. Language, Reason, and Science -- 6.1. Language 1: The Pre-communicative Dimension -- 6.2. Language 2: The Political Dimension -- 6.3. Realism and Nominalism -- 6.4. The Framework of Language and Reason -- 6.5. Science -- 6.6. Hobbes's Division of the Sciences -- 7. An Anthropology of the Individual: The Passions -- 7.1. A Naturalistic Hedonism -- 7.2. A Topography of the Passions -- 7.3. Freedom, Self-Preservation, and Determinism -- 7.4. Power -- 8. An Anthropology of the Social: The Possibility of Peace in a Condition of War -- 8.1. The Conditions of Peace -- 8.2. "Man Is a Wolf to Man" -- 8.3. A Prevailing Inclination for Peace? -- 9. Legitimating the State -- 9.1. The Laws of Nature -- 9.2. A Moral Philosophy? -- 9.3. The Original Contract -- 9.4. Absolute Authority -- 9.5. A Right to Rebellion? -- 10. Law -- 10.1. "Not Truth but Authority" -- 10.2. The Division of Laws.

10.3. A Theory of Commands -- 10.4. Laws of Nature as a Corrective? -- 10.5. Authorized Power -- 11. Religion and Church -- 11.1. A Twofold Political Question -- 11.2. The Anthropological Foundations of Religion -- 11.3. The Kingdom of God -- 11.4. The Principles of a Christian Politics -- 11.5. A Materialistic Theology -- 11.6. Hobbes's Critique of Other Churches -- 12. An Excursus: Hobbes's Critique of Aristotle -- 12.1. The "Vain Philosophy" of Aristotle -- 12.2. An Aristotelian in Spite of Himself -- 12.3. Inevitable Strife or the Social Nature of Man? -- 13. History -- 13.1. Translating Thucydides -- 13.2. The History of the Church and the Kingdom of God -- 13.3. Behemoth -- III. The Influence of Hobbes -- 14. From His Age to Our Own -- 14.1. The Early Reception and Critique of Hobbes's Work -- 14.2. A Continuing Debate -- 14.3. The Modern Discussion -- Chronology of Hobbes's Life and Work -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index.

An introduction to Thomas Hobbes as a systematic and not merely political philosopher.

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