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Author : Thomas Hobbes
Release : 1999-03-28
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 688/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity by : Thomas Hobbes
Download or read book Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity written by Thomas Hobbes. This book was released on 1999-03-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the famous seventeenth-century debate on freedom between Thomas Hobbes and John Bramhall.
Author : Thomas Hobbes
Release : 1999
Genre : Free will and determinism
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Book Rating : 113/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity by : Thomas Hobbes
Download or read book Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity written by Thomas Hobbes. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Nicholas D. Jackson
Release : 2011-02-17
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 440/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hobbes, Bramhall and the Politics of Liberty and Necessity by : Nicholas D. Jackson
Download or read book Hobbes, Bramhall and the Politics of Liberty and Necessity written by Nicholas D. Jackson. This book was released on 2011-02-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was the first full account of one of the most famous quarrels of the seventeenth century, that between the philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and the Anglican archbishop of Armagh, John Bramhall (1594-1663). This analytical narrative interprets that quarrel within its own immediate and complicated historical circumstances, the Civil Wars (1638-49) and Interregnum (1649-60). The personal clash of Hobbes and Bramhall is connected to the broader conflict, disorder, violence, dislocation and exile that characterised those periods. This monograph offered not only the first comprehensive narrative of their hostilities over two decades, but also an illuminating analysis of aspects of their private and public quarrel that have been neglected in previous accounts, with special attention devoted to their dispute over political and religious authority. This will be of interest to scholars of early modern British history, religious history and the history of ideas.
Author : Thomas Hobbes
Release : 2012-10-03
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 14X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Leviathan by : Thomas Hobbes
Download or read book Leviathan written by Thomas Hobbes. This book was released on 2012-10-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures were in flux and open to interpretation, Leviathan played an essential role in the development of the modern world.
Author : Susanne Sreedhar
Release : 2010-09-02
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 309/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hobbes on Resistance by : Susanne Sreedhar
Download or read book Hobbes on Resistance written by Susanne Sreedhar. This book was released on 2010-09-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hobbes's political theory has traditionally been taken to be an endorsement of state power and a prescription for unconditional obedience to the sovereign's will. In this book, Susanne Sreedhar develops a novel interpretation of Hobbes's theory of political obligation and explores important cases where Hobbes claims that subjects have a right to disobey and resist state power, even when their lives are not directly threatened. Drawing attention to this broader set of rights, her comprehensive analysis of Hobbes's account of political disobedience reveals a unified and coherent theory of resistance that has previously gone unnoticed and undefended. Her book will appeal to all who are interested in the nature and limits of political authority, the right of self-defense, the right of revolution, and the modern origins of these issues.
