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Höffe Otfried |
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Thomas Hobbes / / Otfried Höffe ; translated by Nicholas Walker |
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Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (270 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Political scientists - Great Britain |
Philosophers - Great Britain |
Political science - Philosophy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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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 Philosophy4.2. 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 Passions7.1. 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 |
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