The Politics of Motion: The World of Thomas Hobbes

Two principal issues interact and overlap in this penetrating analysis: the relationship between Hobbes' natural philosophy and his civil philosophy, and the relationship between Hobbes' thought and the Aristotelian world view that constituted the philosophical orthodoxy he rejected. On the first point Thomas A. Spragens Jr. argues that Hobbes' political ideas were in fact significantly influenced by his cosmological perceptions, although they were not, and could not have been, completely deriv

Author: Thomas A. Spragens
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9780813154671

About the Author

Thomas A. Spragens Jr. is assistant professor of political science at Duke University.

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