| The Politics of Motion: The World of Thomas Hobbes Contributor(s): Spragens, Thomas A. (Author), Flew, Antony (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0813154677 ISBN-13: 9780813154671 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky OUR PRICE: $23.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Political - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Philosophy | Criticism |
| Dewey: 192 |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.64 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 derived from that source. On the second, the author demonstrates that Hobbes undertook a highly systematic transformation of Aristotelian cosmology: he borrowed the form of the Aristotelian cosmology, but radically refashioned its substance to accommodate the discoveries of contemporaries such as Galileo. |