| Reviews |
| Review(s) from previous edition:
- ''lucid introduction to the first great English political philosopher'' - The Times
- ''Very useful for students - comprehensive, concise and clearly written.'' - J. Townshend, Manchester Polytechnic
- ''A useful introductory text, particularly in so far as it makes the results of more recent scholarship readily available to undergraduates.'' - Dr P. Dews, University of Essex
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| Description | | - Covers important topics such as atheism, and human nature
- Hobbes was the first great English political philosopher
- Richard Tuck is an expert in political philosophy and history
- Discusses Hobbes' view of the natural human condition as 'nasty, brutish, and short'
- Fully updated bibliography for this edition
| | Thomas Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, 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 illuminating study, Richard Tuck re-evaluates Hobbes's philosophy and dispels these myths, revealing him to have been passionately concerned with the refutation of
scepticism, and to have developed a theory of knowledge which rivalled that of Descartes in its importance. |
Readership: Students of philosophy, history of western ideas, and political theory; general readers interested in philosophy and European thought.
| Contents |
Part I: Hobbes's life
The life of a humanist
The life of a philosopher
The life of a heretic
Part II: Hobbes's work
Science
Ethics
Politics
Religion
Part III: Interpretations of Hobbes
Hobbes as a modern natural law theorist
Hobbes as the demon of modernity
Hobbes as the social scientist
Hobbes as a moralist
Hobbes today
Conclusion
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Richard Tuck, Professor of Government, Harvard University
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