1st Edition

Hobbes The Arguments of the Philosophers

By Thomas Sorell Copyright 1999
    176 Pages
    by Routledge

    176 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 1999. The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical introduction to the work of a philosopher of major influence and significance. Hobbes's writings are dominated by a preoccupation with science: what it is, how it is organized and learned, and why creatures like us cannot do well without it.

    Chapter 1 The Science of Politics and the Unity of Science; Chapter 2 The Part s of Science and the Methods of Science; Chapter 3 Knowledge and Power in Fallen Man; Chapter 4 Two Problems with Demonstrative Science; Chapter 5 First Principles, First Causes and the Sciences of Motion; Chapter 6 Motion, Phantasms and the Objects of Sense; Chapter 7 Sense, Thought and Motivation; Chapter 8 The Pursuit of Felicity and the Good of Survival; Chapter 9 Absolute Submission, Undivided Sovereignty; Chapter 10 Sedition, Submission and Science;

    Biography

    Tom Sorell