Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiastical and Civill - Couverture rigide

Hobbes, Thomas

 
9781781399774: Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiastical and Civill
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1781399778 ISBN 13 : 9781781399774
Editeur : Benediction Books, 2016

Synopsis

Throughout his long life Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) associated with some of the most celebrated thinkers of the age and witnessed some of its most dramatic events; it is therefore no wonder that his philosophy is regarded as among the most original and influential in Western philosophy. Motivated as much by Hobbes' horror of the violence unleashed by the English civil war as his materialistic belief in thought as a mechanical process, Leviathan (1651) states the case for complete obedience to an absolute government as the only way of bringing peace and security to society. The true nature of mankind is at the heart of Hobbes' political philosophy, and it is his uncompromising rejection of pre-existing depictions of mankind as the peak of creation in favour of a race naturally compelled to savagery which makes Leviathan as challenging and controversial today as it ever was.

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Éditeur
Benediction Books
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1781399778
ISBN 13 
9781781399774
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
364
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780300118384: Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0300118384 ISBN 13 :  9780300118384
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2010
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