A Letter on the Principles of Justness and Decency, Containing a Defence of the Treatise de Cive of the Learned Mr Hobbes

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.

About the author

Malcolm de Mowbray is an author and translator specializing in the history of science and philosophy. He has worked extensively on Dutch seventeenth-century philosophy and, more recently, the Middle Ages.

Catherine Secretan, Ph. D. (1980), is Directrice de recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France). She has published monographs, translations and many scholarly papers, including Le marchand philosophe de Gaspar Barlaeus (Champion, 2002) and The Self-Perception of Early Modern Capitalists (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, with Margaret Jacob).

Product details

• Authors: Lambert van Velthuysen
• Assisted by: Malcolm de Mowbray (Editor), Malcolm de Mowbray (Translation)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.01.2013
• EAN: 9789004225657
• ISBN: 978-90-04-22565-7
• No. of pages: 314
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 239 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 612 g
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectua
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)