Author: Tuck, Richard

Price: $12.99

Category:Books
Publication Date:2002-08-29T00:00:01Z
Pages:144
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:0192802550
ISBN:13:9780192802552
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was the first great English political philosopher, and his book Leviathan was one of the first truly modern works of philosophy. Richard Tuck shows that while Hobbes may indeed have been an atheist, he was far from pessimistic about human nature, nor did he advocate totalitarianism. By locating him against the context of his age, we learn that Hobbes developed a theory of knowledge which rivalled that of Descartes in its importance for the formation of modern philosophy.