HOBBES by Stephen Priest

CONTENTS:

• HOBBES IN HISTORY
• MIND
• LANGUAGE
• REASON
• SCIENCE
• FREEDOM
• EMOTION
• RELIGION
• NATURE
• ETHICS
• POLITICS
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• Price: £ 7 (or the equivalent in your currency)
• First Published in Stephen Priest The British Empiricists, Penguin Books, London and New York 1990.
• 28 pages 16,305 words

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), the English philosopher and political theorist, is famous for two influential theses: the reductivist claim that everything that exists is completely physical and the political doctrine that a strong state, in which some of our freedoms are sacrificed, is preferable to a condition of anarchy or war. Stephen Priest's clear introduction locates Hobbes' thought in history and examines his philosophical and political arguments in an accessible way.

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