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A letter on the principles of justness and decency : containing a defence of the treatise De cive of the learned Mr. Hobbes / Lambert van Velthuysen ; edited and translated by Malcolm de Mowbray ; with an introduction by Catherine Secretan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Velthuysen, Lambert van, 1622-1685.
- Series:
- Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 218.
- Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's texts and sources in intellectual history ; v. 13.
- Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's texts and sources in intellectual history
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Political science--Early works to 1800.
- Political science.
- Virtue.
- Vice.
- Justice.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 293 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : Brill, 2013.
- Summary:
- Although little known today, the Utrecht physician and town councillor Lambert van Velthuysen (1622-1685) was a prolific Dutch seventeenth-century philosopher and a vociferous advocate of the new philosophies of Descartes and Hobbes. The Letter on the Principles of Justness and Decency of 1651 constitutes both the first published reaction to Hobbes's political philosophy and the first attempt by a Dutch philosopher at using Hobbes to supply a 'Cartesian' moral philosophy. It is also a highly original work that seeks to define the nature of virtue and vice and to justify the magistrate's right to punish crimes. It will thus be of interest not only to historians of philosophy but to all those interested in the social and cultural history of the Dutch Golden Age. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- A Letter on the Principles of Justness and Decency
- Preface to the Reader 57
- On the Principles of Justness and Decency 65
- A Demonstration from Holy Scripture 157
- Epistolica Dissertatio De Principiis Justi Et Decori
- Praefatio ad Lectorem 181
- De principiis justi et decori 187
- Probatio ex Scriptura sacra 263.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contains:
- Velthuysen, Lambert van, 1622-1685. Epistolica dissertatio de principiis justi et decori.
- Velthuysen, Lambert van, 1622-1685. Epistolica dissertatio de principiis justi et decori. English
- ISBN:
- 9789004225657
- 900422565X
- OCLC:
- 820787129
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