Hobbes

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-280255-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 115 mm x 178 mm, Gewicht: 159 g

Thomas Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, has long had the reputation of being a pessimistic atheist, who saw human nature as inevitably evil and proposed a totalitarian state to subdue human failings. In this illuminating study, Richard Tuck re-evaluates Hobbes's philosophy and dispels these myths, revealing him to have been passionately concerned with the refutation of scepticism, and to have developed a theory of knowledge which rivalled that of Descartes in its importance.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Tuck, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I: Hobbes's life

- The life of a philosopher

- The life of a heretic

- Part II: Hobbes's work

- Ethics

- Politics

- Religion

- Part III: Interpretations of Hobbes

- Hobbes as the demon of modernity

- Hobbes as the social scientist

- Hobbes as a moralist

- Hobbes today

- Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Tuck is Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of Natural Rights Theories (1979) and Philosophy and Government 1572-1651 (1993), and has produced editions of Hobbes's Leviathan and (with Michael Silverthorne) De Cive.