A letter on the principles of justness and decency : containing a defence of the treatise De cive of the learned Mr. Hobbes /

Velthuysen, Lambert van, 1622-1685.

A letter on the principles of justness and decency : containing a defence of the treatise De cive of the learned Mr. Hobbes / Lambert van Velthuysen ; edited and translated by Malcolm de Mowbray ; with an introduction by Catherine Secretan. - Boston : Brill, 2013. - 1 online resource - Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 218 Brill's texts and sources in intellectual history ; v. 13 . - Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 218. Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's texts and sources in intellectual history ; v. 13. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Acknowledgements; Translator's Preface; Introduction; A LETTER ON THE PRINCIPLES OF JUSTNESS AND DECENCY; Preface to the Reader; On the Principles of Justness and Decency; A Demonstration from Holy Scripture; EPISTOLICA DISSERTATIO DE PRINCIPIIS JUSTI ET DECORI; Praefatio ad Lectorem; De principiis justi et decori; Probatio quaestionum quarundam ex Scriptura sacra; Bibliography; Index.

The Letter on the Principles of Justness and Decency (1651) by Lambert van Velthuysen deduces the nature of virtue and vice and the right to punish crimes from the Hobbesian principle of self-preservation.

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Political science--Early works to 1800.
Virtue.
Vice.
Justice.
Vertus.
Vice.
Justice.
PHILOSOPHY--Political.
Justice.
Political science.
Vice.
Virtue.


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