Thomas Hobbes / / Otfried Höffe ; translated by Nicholas Walker

• Autore: Höffe Otfried
• Pubblicazione: Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (270 p.)
• Disciplina: 192
• Soggetto topico: Political scientists - Great Britain; Philosophers - Great Britain; Political science - Philosophy
• Persona (resp. second.): WalkerNicholas
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Social: The Possibility of Peace in a Condition of War; 8.1. The Conditions of Peace; 8.2. "Man Is a Wolf to Man"; 8.3. A Prevailing Inclination for Peace?; 9. Legitimating the State; 9.1. The Laws of Nature; 9.2. A Moral Philosophy?; 9.3. The Original Contract; 9.4. Absolute Authority; 9.5. A Right to Rebellion?; 10. Law; 10.1. "Not Truth but Authority"; 10.2. The Division of Laws ; 10.3. A Theory of Commands10.4. Laws of Nature as a Corrective?; 10.5. Authorized Power; 11. Religion and Church; 11.1. A Twofold Political Question; 11.2. The Anthropological Foundations of Religion; 11.3. The Kingdom of God; 11.4. The Principles of a Christian Politics; 11.5. A Materialistic Theology; 11.6. Hobbes's Critique of Other Churches; 12. An Excursus: Hobbes's Critique of Aristotle; 12.1. The "Vain Philosophy" of Aristotle; 12.2. An Aristotelian in Spite of Himself; 12.3. Inevitable Strife or the Social Nature of Man?; 13. History; 13.1. Translating Thucydides ; 13.2. The History of the Church and the Kingdom of God13.3. Behemoth; III. The Influence of Hobbes; 14. From His Age to Our Own; 14.1. The Early Reception and Critique of Hobbes's Work; 14.2. A Continuing Debate; 14.3. The Modern Discussion; Chronology of Hobbes's Life and Work; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index
• Titolo autorizzato: Thomas Hobbes
• ISBN: 1-4384-5767-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797687903321
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