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Hobbes and the artifice of eternity /
Thomas Hobbes argues that the fear of violent death is the most reliable passion on which to found political society. His role in shaping the contemporary view of religion and honor in the West is pivotal, yet his ideas are famously riddled with contradictions. In this breakthrough study, McClure fi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The desire for immortality as a political problem
- The effectual truth of Hobbes's rhetoric
- Leviathan as a scientific work of art
- The hollow religion of Leviathan
- Hell and anxiety in Hobbes's Leviathan
- War, madness and death: the paradox of honor in Hobbes's Leviathan
- Self-interest rightly understood in Behemoth: the case of General Monck
- The afterlife and immortality.