Thomas Hobbes in His Time, Volume 1

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Ralph Gilbert Ross, Herbert Wallace Schneider, Theodore Waldmann
U of Minnesota Press, 1974 - 150 pages
Thomas Hobbes, the seventeenth-century English philosopher, is the subject of lively discussion among philosophers, historians, and political theorists today. Both as a participant in a revolutionary commonwealth and as a student of the science of human nature, Hobbes has achieved a new relevance to contemporary society. As the editors of this volume point out, moralists are apt to place him in the twentieth century, and historians are apt to portray him as an antique. The aim of these essays is to get an accurate account of how radical Hobbes was in his own revolutionary century.
 

Contents

Introduction
3
The Motivation of Hobbess Political Philosophy
8
The Philosophia Prima of Thomas Hobbes
31
Some Puzzles in Hobbes
42
Hobbes on the Generation of a Public Person
61
The Piety of Hobbes
84
Hobbess Anglican Doctrine of Salvation
102
Notes
129
A Selected Bibliography
136
Index
143
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