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ISBN 10: 1847061613 
ISBN 13: 9781847061614
Author:  George Macdonald Ross

Thomas Hobbes was one of the most important and influential philosophers of the seventeenth century. Covering all the key concepts of his work, Starting with Hobbes provides an accessible introduction to the ideas of this hugely significant thinker. Thematically structured, this book leads the reader through the full range of Hobbes’s ideas and, uniquely, not just his political philosophy. In his day, he was internationally as famous for his theories about knowledge, language, the material nature of reality, mathematics, psychology, and religion, as he was for his politics; and these aspects of his work are fully covered. The book places Hobbes firmly in his historical context, with discussions of his relations to contemporary thinkers such as Galileo and Descartes and his influence on later thinkers such as Spinoza and Leibniz. This is the ideal introduction for anyone coming to the work of one of the greatest of English philosophers for the first time.

Starting with Hobbes 1st Table of contents:

i. Abbreviations
CHAPTER 1: LIFE AND WORKS
i. Early Years
ii. The Cavendish Family
iii. Tutor to the Second Earl of Devonshire
iv. Tutor to Gervase Clifton
v. Tutor to the Third Earl of Devonshire
vi. Exile in Paris
vii. Return to England
viii. Last Years
CHAPTER 2: THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE
i. Medieval Theories of Perception
ii. Galileo’s Theory of Perception
iii. Descartes’ Theory of Perception
iv. Hobbes’s Theory of Perception
v. The Nature of Light
vi. Special Features of Hobbes’s Account
vii. Perception and Action
viii. Primary and Secondary Qualities
ix. Scientific Knowledge
x. Language
xi. Reasoning
xii. An Alternative Theory of Meaning
CHAPTER 3: MATERIALISM
i. Introduction
ii. Substance
iii. Immaterial Substances
iv. The Human Soul
v. No Vacuum
vi. Universals
vii. Truths
viii. Infinity
ix. Geometry
x. Cause
xi. Conation
xii. Determinism
CHAPTER 4: THE HUMAN BEING
i. Introduction
ii. Appetite and Aversion
iii. Good and Evil
iv. Deliberation and Will
v. Freedom and Determinism
vi. The Equality of Humans
vii. The State of Nature
viii. Natural Laws
CHAPTER 5: SOCIETY
i. A Science of Society
ii. The Making of the Social Contract
iii. Was the Social Contract a Historical Event?
iv. Commonwealth by Institution and by Acquisition
v. Monarchy, Aristocracy and Democracy
vi. The Indivisibility of Sovereignty
vii. Life Under Absolute Rule
viii. Freedom of Thought
CHAPTER 6: RELIGION
i. Hobbes as a Fundamentalist Anglican
ii. The Corruption of Christianity by Greek Philosophy
iii. The Argument for Belief in the Existence of God
iv. God as Material
v. The Afterlife
CHAPTER 7: HOBBES’S INFLUENCE
i. Religion and Political Philosophy
ii. Metaphysics
iii. Conclusion
SOURCES
i. Hobbes Texts
ii. Other Primary Texts
iii. Hobbes’s Biography
iv. Hobbes’s Influence

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