Hobbes av A.P. Martinich

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<P>Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was the first great English philosopher and one of the most important theorists of human nature and politics in the history of Western thought. <BR><BR>This superlative introduction presents Hobbes'' main doctrines and arguments, covering all of Hobbes'' philosophy. A.P. Martinich begins with a helpful overview of Hobbes'' life and work, setting his ideas against the political and scientific background of seventeenth-century England. He then introduces and assesses, in clear chapters, Hobbes'' contributions to fundamental areas of philosophy: </P><UL><LI>epistemology and metaphysics, in particular Hobbes'' materialism and determinism and his relation to Descartes</LI><LI>ethics and political philosophy, concentrating on Hobbes'' most famous work, <EM>Leviathan,</EM> and the theory of the social contract it advances</LI><LI>philosophy of science, logic and language, considering Hobbes'' theory of nominalism and his writing on rhetoric and the uses of la