The Hunting of Leviathan: Seventeenth-century Reactions to the Materialism and Moral Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes - Softcover

Mintz, Samuel

 
9780521131322: The Hunting of Leviathan: Seventeenth-century Reactions to the Materialism and Moral Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes

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Mintz examines seventeenth-century reactions to the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes.

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Thomas Hobbes 'the infamous author of Leviathan' is remembered chiefly for his political philosophy but his contemporaries were more concerned with the moral and materialistic views which formed the basis of his doctrines. Mintz sets Hobbes against his intellectual background and so gives an added dimension to his thought.

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