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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.
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Richard Tuck is Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of Natural Rights Theories (1979) and Philosophy and Government 1572-1651 (1993), and has produced editions of Hobbes's Leviathan and (with Michael Silverthorne) De Cive.
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It is sometimes tempting to think that the heroes of the various histories of philosophy or ethics - men as different as St Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli, Luther, Hobbes, Kant, or Hegel - were all in some sense engaged on a common enterprise, and would have recognized one another as fellow workers. Read the first page
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It is sometimes tempting to think that the heroes of the various histories of philosophy or ethics - men as different as St Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli, Luther, Hobbes, Kant, or Hegel - were all in some sense engaged on a common enterprise, and would have recognized one another as fellow workers. Read the first page
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