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Hobbes and Bramhall : on liberty and necessity / edited by Vere Chappell.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy.
- Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.
- Hobbes, Thomas.
- Bramhall, John, 1594-1663.
- Bramhall, John.
- Free will and determinism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxiv, 104 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- Hobbes & Bramhall on Liberty & Necessity
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Do human beings ever act freely, and if so what does freedom mean? Is everything that happens antecedently caused, and if so how is freedom possible? Is it right, even for God, to punish people for things that they cannot help doing? This volume presents the famous seventeenth-century controversy in which Thomas Hobbes and John Bramhall debate these questions and others. The complete texts of their initial contributions to the debate are included, together with selections from their subsequent replies to one another and from other works of Hobbes, in a collection that offers an illuminating commentary on issues still of concern to philosophers today. The volume is completed by a historical and philosophical introduction that explains the context in which the debate took place.
- Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chronology; Further reading; Note on the text; Bramhall s discourse of liberty and necessity; Hobbes s treatise Of Liberty and Necessity; Selections from Bramhall, A Defence of True Liberty; Selections from Hobbes, The Questions concerning Liberty, Necessity, and Chance; Selections from Hobbes s other works; Index
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-11448-9
- 0-511-00986-0
- 1-280-42932-1
- 1-139-16420-1
- 0-511-17211-7
- 0-511-15016-4
- 0-511-32461-8
- 0-511-05017-8
- OCLC:
- 475915087
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