Hobbes by Bernard Gert
Thomas Hobbes was the first great English political philosopher. His work excited intense controversy among his contemporaries and continues to do so in our own time.
Bernard Gert's book provides beginning students with an outstanding introduction to the main philosophical concepts and interpretive debates needed for understanding Hobbes's philosophyGert puts Hobbes's works into historical context, plausibly explains his motives, and offers a critical yet constructive account of his moral and political philosophies. Gert's is a model of clarity and thoughtful scholarship. Sharon Lloyd, University of Southern California Bernard Gert has here produced the new standard interpretation of Hobbes's philosophy. The writing throughout is completely accessible to readers working even at the most elementary level of philosophy, ethics, or political science. Nonetheless, philosophers will like it for its precision and careful analyses of controversial topics; non-philosophers for its clarity and its ability to supplement the original without loss of content. This is THE book on Hobbes for the coming generation. Stefan Baumrin, City University of New York Graduate Center Hobbes: Prince of Peace, by Bernard Gert, is the long-awaited product of his 45 years of immersion in the Hobbes corpus. In it, Gert he weaves together the many threads of Hobbes's theory into a single comprehensive account. Showing that readers shouldn't always take what Hobbes writes completely literally, Gert argues for an innovative reading of Hobbes's view on the interrelation between key concepts, such as reason, the laws of nature, and the moral law, and for recognizing distinctions that have heretofore been overlooked. This provocative book will surely be an important touchstone for Hobbes scholarship in the future. Rosamond Rhodes, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Bernard Gert is Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at Dartmouth College.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780745648811 |
| ISBN 10 | 0745648819 |
| Title | Hobbes |
| Author | Bernard Gert |
| Series | Classic Thinkers |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Year published | 2010-01-29 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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