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Hobbes

Hobbes

Paperback

Series: Very Short Introductions, Book 64

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Publisher Price: $12.99

ISBN10: 0192802550
ISBN13: 9780192802552
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Aug 29 2002
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.42 Width: 4.52 Depth: 7.02
Language: English
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was the first great English political philosopher, and his book Leviathan was one of the first truly modern works of philosophy. Richard Tuck shows that while Hobbes may indeed have been an atheist, he was far from pessimistic about human nature, nor did he advocate totalitarianism. By locating him against the context of his age, we learn that Hobbes developed a theory of knowledge which rivaled that of Descartes in its importance for the formation of modern philosophy.

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