Ideological Reasons and Historical Circumstances
by
Jurgen Overhoff
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2000
In Hobbes's Theory of the Will, Jurgen Overhoff reveals the religious, ethical, and political consequences of Thomas Hobbes's doctrine of volition. The author gracefully describes how Hobbes's thought was governed by assumptions based firmly in Galilean natural philosophy and orthodox Protestant theology....