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Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction
Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction
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  • Covers important topics such as atheism, and human nature
  • Hobbes was the first great English political philosopher
  • Richard Tuck is an expert in political philosophy and history
  • Discusses Hobbes' view of the natural human condition as 'nasty, brutish, and short'
  • Fully updated bibliography for this edition

Thomas Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, has long had the reputation of being a pessimistic atheist, who saw human nature as inevitably evil and proposed a totalitarian state to subdue human failings. In this illuminating study, Richard Tuck re-evaluates Hobbes's philosophy and dispels these myths, revealing him to have been passionately concerned with the refutation of scepticism, and to have developed a theory of knowledge which rivalled that of Descartes in its importance.

Index: 

Part I: Hobbes's lifeThe life of a humanist
The life of a philosopher
The life of a heretic

Part II: Hobbes's workScience
Ethics
Politics
Religion

Part III: Interpretations of HobbesHobbes as a modern natural law theorist
Hobbes as the demon of modernity
Hobbes as the social scientist
Hobbes as a moralist
Hobbes today

Conclusion

About the author: 

Richard Tuck is Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of Natural Rights Theories (1979) and Philosophy and Government 1572-1651 (1993), and has produced editions of Hobbes's Leviathan and (with Michael Silverthorne) De Cive.

Review from previous edition
Lucid introduction to the first great English political philosopher - The Times

Very useful for students - comprehensive, concise and clearly written. - J. Townshend, Manchester Polytechnic

A useful introductory text, particularly in so far as it makes the results of more recent scholarship readily available to undergraduates. - Dr P. Dews, University of Essex

Product details

ISBN : 9780192802552

Author: 
Richard Tuck
Pages
168 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
112 x 175 mm
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Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction

Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction

Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction