03020nam 22005775 450 991072508780332120251009082308.09783031277337(electronic bk.)978303127732010.1007/978-3-031-27733-7(MiAaPQ)EBC30545048(Au-PeEL)EBL30545048(OCoLC)1379478084(OCoLC)1380359123(DE-He213)978-3-031-27733-7(BIP)088157243(CKB)26707051300041(EXLCZ)992670705130004120230515d2023 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierHobbes's Creativity /by James J. Hamilton1st ed. 2023.Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2023.1 online resource (264 pages)Print version: Hamilton, James J. Hobbes's Creativity Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2023 9783031277320 1 The Psychology of Creativity and Hobbes -- 2 Hobbes’s Development, Personality, and Motivation -- 3 Cognition and the Passions -- 4 Moral Relativity and the Sovereign -- 5 The State of Nature -- 6 The Civil State and Popular Sovereignty -- 7 Hobbes’s Creative Virtuosity.This book approaches Hobbes's philosophy from a completely new perspective: his creativity. Creativity is the production of something which experts consider to be original, valuable and of high quality. James Hamilton explores Hobbes's creativity by focusing on his development, personality, and motivation in the context of his culture and environment, and on the ways in which he thought creatively, as inferred from his writings. Identification of the ideas which Hobbes drew upon is an important part of the study for two reasons. First, they are necessary to determine which of Hobbes's ideas and theories are original and which are not. Second, analysis of his creativity requires an understanding of the ideas from which he drew. Hamilton concludes that Hobbes became a great philosopher because of his creative virtuosity. James J. Hamilton served in the U.S. Foreign Service from 1979 to 2006. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University in 1978, and taught briefly at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.PhilosophyPolitical scienceIntellectual lifeHistoryPhilosophyPolitical TheoryIntellectual HistoryPhilosophy.Political science.Intellectual lifeHistory.Philosophy.Political Theory.Intellectual History.192Hamilton James J141649MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910725087803321Hobbes's Creativity3367520UNINA