Nicholas D. Jackson

Hobbes, Bramhall and the Politics of Liberty and Necessity

A Quarrel of the Civil Wars and Interregnum

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Produktbeschreibung

This book was the first full account of the famous debate between Thomas Hobbes and John Bramhall.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 578g
• ISBN-13: 9780521181440
• ISBN-10: 0521181445
• Artikelnr.: 32302098

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Bishop Bramhall
the 'Great Arminian'
'Irish Canterbury' and 'Most Unsound Man in Ireland'
1633-41; 2. Bishop Bramhall
the Earl of Newcastle
Thomas Hobbes and the first English Civil War; 3. Hobbes's flight to France
De Cive and the beginning of the quarrel with Bramhall
summer 1645; 4. An epistolary skirmish
1645-6: Bramhall
'Discourse'
Hobbes
'Treatise' and Bramhall
'Vindication'; 5. Bramhall and the Royalist schemes of 1646-50; 6. Hobbes and Leviathan among the exiles
1646-51; 7. The public quarrel: Hobbes
Of Liberty and Necessity
1654
Bramhall
Defence of True Liberty
1655 and Hobbes
Questions concerning Necessity
Liberty and Chance
1656; 8. Castigations of Hobbes's Animadversions and The Catching of Leviathan
1657-8: Hobbes as Leviathan of Leviathans; 9. The restoration and death of Bramhall and Hobbes's last word
1668; Conclusion.