Hobbes

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ISBN: 9780415283274 | 0415283272
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 7/12/2005

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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 introduces Hobbes's main doctrines and arguments, covering all of Hobbes's philosophy.

Figures	p. x
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Chronology	p. xiv
Life	p. 1
The Return of the Native	p. 1
Early Life	p. 4
Science and International Relations	p. 7
Political Views	p. 15
Religious, Mathematical, and Scientific Disputes	p. 18
Further Reading	p. 23
Metaphysics and Mind	p. 24
Materialism	p. 24
Conatus	p. 28
Mechanism	p. 30
Determinism	p. 31
Mind	p. 33
Sensation	p. 33
Imagination	p. 35
Mental Discourse	p. 37
Desire, Appetite, Aversion	p. 38
The Importance of Desires	p. 44
Free Will	p. 47
Conclusion	p. 53
Further Reading	p. 53
Moral Philosophy	p. 54
Moral and Political Philosophy	p. 54
Good and Evil	p. 57
The State of Nature	p. 63
Equality	p. 65
The Right of Nature	p. 77
Liberty	p. 79
The Definition of the Law of Nature	p. 80
The Deduction of the Laws of Nature	p. 86
Laws and Propositional Form	p. 97
Other Laws of Nature	p. 98
When Do the Laws Apply?	p. 100
Eternal Natural Laws	p. 100
The Fool	p. 101
Conclusion	p. 105
Further Reading	p. 106
Political Philosophy	p. 107
The Origin of a Commonwealth	p. 107
Persons	p. 112
Authorization and Alienation	p. 115
Sovereignty by Acquisition	p. 125
The Properties of a Sovereign	p. 128
Political Liberty	p. 131
The Dissolution of the Commonwealth	p. 132
The Value of Hobbes's Philosophy	p. 135
Conclusion	p. 136
Further Reading	p. 136
Language, Logic, and Science	p. 137
The Basic Units of Language	p. 137
Names	p. 141
Signification and Denotation	p. 144
Speech Acts	p. 146
Definitions	p. 147
Necessary and Contingent Propositions	p. 150
The Value of Philosophy	p. 151
The Scope and Definition of Philosophy	p. 153
The Unity of Science	p. 172
Conclusion	p. 174
Further Reading	p. 175
Religion	p. 176
Cultural Context and Religious Beliefs	p. 176
Revelation, Prophets, and Miracles	p. 179
Faith	p. 185
Religion, Superstition, and True Religion	p. 187
The Causes of Religion	p. 191
The Causes of the Decline of Religion	p. 198
The Nature of God and Language about Him	p. 200
Conclusion	p. 206
Further Reading	p. 207
Hobbes Today	p. 208
Scholarship before 1975	p. 208
Scholarship after 1975	p. 214
Conclusion	p. 235
Further Reading	p. 237
Glossary	p. 238
Notes	p. 240
Bibliography	p. 248
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