Overview
Two principal issues interact and overlap in this penetrating analysis: the relationship between Hobbes' natural philosophy and his civil philosophy, and the relationship between Hobbes' thought and the Aristotelian world view that constituted the philosophical orthodoxy he rejected. On the first point Thomas A. Spragens Jr. argues that Hobbes' political ideas were in fact significantly influenced by his cosmological perceptions, although they were not, and could not have been, completely deriv
- | Author: Thomas A. Spragens
- | Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
- | Publication Date: Jul 15, 2014
- | Number of Pages: 224 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0813154677
- | ISBN-13: 9780813154671
