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The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Its Genesis

The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Its Genesis

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Series: Phoenix Books

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0226776964
ISBN13: 9780226776965
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Apr 15 1996
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.62 Depth: 8.52
Language: English
In this classic analysis, Leo Strauss pinpoints what is original and innovative in the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. He argues that Hobbes's ideas arose not from tradition or science but from his own deep knowledge and experience of human nature. Tracing the development of Hobbes's moral doctrine from his early writings to his major work The Leviathan, Strauss explains contradictions in the body of Hobbes's work and discovers startling connections between Hobbes and the thought of Plato, Thucydides, Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, and Hegel.

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