Politicized Physics in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy - Essays on Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, and Spinoza

This book examines the role that natural philosophy (that is, doctrines of physics) plays in the emergence of Early Modern political thought. Robert J. Roecklein argues that the natural philosophy of Early Modernity, especially its indictment of sense perception, constitutes a major political foundation for the more concrete doctrines of political science developed by Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, and Spinoza.

List of contents

Introduction: Physics and Politics
Chapter 1: Francis Bacon's Uncharitable Charity: The Birth of a New Rationality
Chapter 2: Descartes and the Science of Authority
Chapter 3: Hobbes's Natural Science
Chapter 4: Hobbes's 'Right of Nature' and the Politics of Agony
Chapter 5: On Spinoza's 'Substance' or 'God'
Conclusion: Early Modern Philosophy, Just the Facts
Bibliography

About the author

Robert J. Roecklein

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Robert J. Roecklein, Robert J. Roecklein
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781498556538
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5653-8
• No. of pages: 266
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Modern philosophy: since c 1800, ancient philosophy, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500