Hobbes : a very short introduction

By:

Tuck, Richard

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: A very short introductionPublication details: 2002 Oxford University Press Oxford ; New YorkDescription: xiii, 148 p. : ill. ; 18 cmISBN:

9780192802552

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

028.7 TUC

Summary: Thomas Hobbes was the first great English political philosopher, and his book Leviathan was one of the first truly modern works of philosophy. He has long had the reputation of being a pessimistic atheist, who saw human nature as inevitably evil and proposed a totalitarian state to subdue human failings." "In this study, Richard Tuck dispels these myths, revealing Hobbes to have been passionately concerned with the refutation of scepticism in both sciences and ethics, and to have developed a theory of knowledge which rivalled that of Descartes in its importance for the formation of modern philosophy

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Anant National University Central Library	General	028.7 TUC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		003215

<p>Includes bibliographical references (p. 132-134) and index.</p>

Thomas Hobbes was the first great English political philosopher, and his book Leviathan was one of the first truly modern works of philosophy. He has long had the reputation of being a pessimistic atheist, who saw human nature as inevitably evil and proposed a totalitarian state to subdue human failings." "In this study, Richard Tuck dispels these myths, revealing Hobbes to have been passionately concerned with the refutation of scepticism in both sciences and ethics, and to have developed a theory of knowledge which rivalled that of Descartes in its importance for the formation of modern philosophy

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