Hobbes

Klappentext The most convenient, accessible guide to Hobbes available. Zusammenfassung Hobbes had distinctive views in metaphysics and epistemology! and wrote about such subjects as history! law! religion! physics! optics and geometry. All of these areas are given detailed coverage in this Companion! which is a valuable conspectus of Hobbesian philosophy for both the new reader and the advanced scholar. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. A summary biography of Hobbes Noel Malcolm; 2. Hobbes's scheme of the sciences Tom Sorell; 3. First philosophy and the foundations of knowledge Yves Charles Zarka; 4. Hobbes and the method of natural science Douglas Jesseph; 5. Hobbes and mathematics Hardy Grant; 6. Hobbes on light and vision Jan Prins; 7. Hobbes's psychology Bernard Gert; 8. Hobbes's moral philosophy Richard Tuck; 9. Hobbes's political philosophy Alan Ryan; 10. Lofty science and local politics Johann Sommerville; 11. Hobbes on law M. M. Goldsmith; 12. History in Hobbes's thought Luc Borot; 13. Hobbes on rhetoric Victoria Silver; 14. Hobbes on religion Patricia Springborg.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Sorell
• Assisted by: Professor Tom Sorell (Editor), Tom Sorell (Editor), Tom Sorrell (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1996
• EAN: 9780521422444
• ISBN: 978-0-521-42244-4
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 230 mm x 26 mm
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy; Cambridge companion; Cambridge Companions to Philos; Cambridge Companions to Philosophy; Cambridge Companions to Philos; Cambridge companion
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy