Thomas Hobbes / R.E.R. Bunce.

By:

Bunce, R. E. R. (Robin E. R.)

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781441170231
1441170235
1283206943
9781283206945
1501301861
9781501301865
9786613206947
6613206946
9781441101167
1441101160

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Thomas Hobbes.DDC classification:

192 22

LOC classification:

JC153.H66 B86 2009eb

Other classification:

CF 4517
MC 4752
5,1

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Contents:

Hobbes's life -- Hobbes's civil philosophy -- Reception and interpretation -- Hobbes today.

Summary: In this volume, Dr Bounce (University of Cambridge) introduces Hobbes' ambitious philosophical project to discover the principles that govern the social world. Although we may dispute Hobbes' immodest assessment that he successfully attained this goal, Bunce nevertheless captures the extraordinary enduring value of Hobbes' work for the contemporary reader. Thomas Hobbes's name and the title of his most famous work, Leviathan, have come to be synonymous with the idea that the natural state of humankind is 'nasty, brutish, and short' and only the intervention of a munificent overlord may spare m.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-156) and index.

Hobbes's life -- Hobbes's civil philosophy -- Reception and interpretation -- Hobbes today.

In this volume, Dr Bounce (University of Cambridge) introduces Hobbes' ambitious philosophical project to discover the principles that govern the social world. Although we may dispute Hobbes' immodest assessment that he successfully attained this goal, Bunce nevertheless captures the extraordinary enduring value of Hobbes' work for the contemporary reader. Thomas Hobbes's name and the title of his most famous work, Leviathan, have come to be synonymous with the idea that the natural state of humankind is 'nasty, brutish, and short' and only the intervention of a munificent overlord may spare m.