Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
192
Language
German
Published
Nov 1, 1999
Publisher
Herder, Freiburg
ISBN-10
345104742X
ISBN-13
9783451047428
Description
Thomas Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, has long had the reputation of being a pessimistic atheist, who saw human nature as inevitably evil and proposed a totalitarian state to subdue human failings. In this illuminating study, Richard Tuck re-evaluates Hobbes's philosophy and dispels these myths, revealing him to have been passionately concerned with the refutation of scepticism, and to have developed a theory of knowledge which rivalled that of Descartes in its importance.
Genres
Philosophy
Nature