The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes (repost)
The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes
Cambridge University Press | 1996-01-26 | ISBN: 0521422442 | 416 pages | PDF | 17,9 MB
Cambridge University Press | 1996-01-26 | ISBN: 0521422442 | 416 pages | PDF | 17,9 MB
It is for Leviathan, his controversial work of political philosophy, that Thomas Hobbes is best known, but his interests extended beyond morals and politics to metaphysics and epistemology, physics and geometry, history and law, and biblical interpretation. (Also, he wrote his autobiography at the age of 84–in Latin verse!) Thus the aim of The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes is "to offer a much broader view of Hobbes's intellectual preoccupations than is usually available," and "to bring together the different perspectives on Hobbes that are now being developed in parallel by philosophers, historians of mathematics and science, historians of early modern England, political scientists, and writers of literary studies.