| A Letter on the Principles of Justness and Decency, Containing a Defence of the Treatise de Cive of the Learned MR Hobbes Contributor(s): Van Velthuysen (Author), de Mowbray (Editor), de Mowbray (Translator) |
|
 |
ISBN: 900422565X ISBN-13: 9789004225657 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $169.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Language: Latin Published: January 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - General - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
| Dewey: 320.011 |
| LCCN: 2012041330 |
| Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.4" W x 9.4" (1.35 lbs) 314 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Although little known today, the Utrecht physician and town councillor Lambert van Velthuysen (1622-1685) was a prolific Dutch seventeenth-century philosopher and a vociferous advocate of the new philosophies of Descartes and Hobbes. The Letter on the Principles of Justness and Decency of 1651 constitutes both the first published reaction to Hobbes's political philosophy and the first attempt by a Dutch philosopher at using Hobbes to supply a 'Cartesian' moral philosophy. It is also a highly original work that seeks to define the nature of virtue and vice and to justify the magistrate's right to punish crimes. It will thus be of interest not only to historians of philosophy but to all those interested in the social and cultural history of the Dutch Golden Age. |