Hobbes / Tom Sorell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sorell, Tom, author.

Series:

Arguments of the philosophers.

Arguments of the Philosophers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.

Hobbes, Thomas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, [1999]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Editions and Abbreviations; I The Science of Politics and the Unity of Science; 1. A project within a project; 2. Teaching philosophy from the elements; 3. The autonomy of civil science; II The Parts of Science and the Methods of Science; 1. A strained parallel; 2. Bodies politic, natural bodies, and method; 3. The methodological disunity of natural and civil science; 4. The order of the parts of science; 5. The parts of science and the concept of science; III Knowledge and Power in Fallen Man

1. Ends, means and the limitations of experience2. Reason, science and human improvement; 3. The conditions of science; 4. Logic-book science?; IV Two Problems With Demonstrative Science; 1. 'Demonstration'; 2. Science, truth and convention; 3. Old logic, new science; V First Principles, First Causes and the Sciences of Motion; 1. The disclosure of universal things; 2. Motion and the 'several parts of science'; 3. Universal things adequately defined?; 4. Geometry and motion; VI Motion, Phantasms and the Objects of Sense; 1. The explanation of appearance; 2. Sentient and insentient bodies

3. Objects of senseVII Sense, Thought and Motivation; 1. Phantasms and the succession of phantasms; 2. Sense, appetite and passion; 3. Difficulties with the reconstruction of the passions; 4. The succession of the passions and action; VIII The Pursuit of Felicity and the Good of Survival; 1. Egoism; 2. War and the free pursuit of felicity; 3. Egoism and the avoidability of war; 4. Hobbes's sense of 'moral'; 5. An acceptable concept of morality?; IX Absolute Submission, Undivided Sovereignty; 1. The dangers of visible virtue; 2. Making it safe for morality; 3. Safety at what price?

4. Citizenship without judgment, civil society without civilizationX Sedition, Submission and Science; 1. 'Heads of pretence to rebellion'; 2. Reason, eloquence, and persuasive civil science; 3. Civil science as exemplary science; 4. Hobbesian science and latter-day philosophy; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Originally published: London ; New York : Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-136-29175-X

1-136-29168-7

1-299-97712-X

0-415-48762-5

1-315-00875-0

9781315008752

OCLC:

70766188