A Hobbes Dictionary [Paperback]

This dictionary provides a comprehensive and cohesive expository account of about one hundred and fifty key concepts covering the entire range of Hobbes's thought, from philosophy, political theory and science, to theology, history and mathematics.Preface.

Abbreviations.

1. Thomas Hobbes in Stuart England.

2. A Chronology of Hobbes's Life and Works.

3. A Chronology of English History for the Study of Hobbes's Thought.

4. Dictionary of Entries A-Z.

Bibliography.

Index.

Martinich offers a superb aid to study of the thought of Thomas Hobbes, the 17th-century English philosopher whose philosophy of law and the state remains controversial. The bulk of the work is a dictionary with approximately 140 entries that cover the full range of Hobbes's thought, including concepts in metaphysics, epistemology, science, politics and theology. The entries provide a helpful exposition of difficult concepts in Hobbes's writing and attempt to clarify, in a balanced, critical way, the problematic and controversial features of his philosophy. ChoiceA. P. Martinich is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of several books, including The Two Gods of Leviathan (1993), and is in addition the editor of Philosophy of Language (Second Edition, 1990).Thomas Hobbes is one of the first great modern philosophers. In particular, his version of the social contract theory has proved to be one of the enduring intellectual achievements of modern political and moral thought.

This dictionary provides a comprehensive and cohesive expository account of about one hundred and fifty key concepts covering the entire range of Hobbes's thought, from philosophy, political theory and science, to theology, history and mathematics. Extensively crosslSH