02505nam 2200577 450 991046392060332120200520144314.00-7391-8854-2(CKB)2670000000544937(EBL)1641876(SSID)ssj0001132762(PQKBManifestationID)12373223(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001132762(PQKBWorkID)11155792(PQKB)10294775(MiAaPQ)EBC1641876(Au-PeEL)EBL1641876(CaPaEBR)ebr10852597(CaONFJC)MIL584930(OCoLC)874029242(EXLCZ)99267000000054493720140410h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPoliticized physics in seventeenth century philosophy essays on Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, and Spinoza /Robert J. RoeckleinLanham, Maryland ;Plymouth, England :Lexington Books,2014.©20141 online resource (267 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4985-5653-1 0-7391-8853-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Francis Bacon's Uncharitable Charity; 2 Descartes and the Science of Authority; 3 Hobbes's Natural Science; 4 Hobbes's 'Right of Nature' and the Politics of Agony; 5 On Spinoza's 'Substance' or 'Nature'; Early Modern Philosophy; Bibliography; IndexThis book examines the role that natural philosophy (that is, doctrines of physics) plays in the emergence of Early Modern political thought. Robert J. Roecklein argues that the natural philosophy of Early Modernity, especially its indictment of sense perception, constitutes a major political foundation for the more concrete doctrines of political science developed by Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, and Spinoza. Political sciencePhilosophyHistory17th centuryPhysicsHistory17th centuryElectronic books.Political sciencePhilosophyHistoryPhysicsHistory320.01Roecklein Robert J.1960-929523MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463920603321Politicized physics in seventeenth century philosophy2089445UNINA