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Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction | Richard Tuck

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Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was the first great English political philosopher, and his book Leviathan was one of the first truly modern works of philosophy. Richard Tuck shows that while Hobbes may indeed have been an atheist, he was far from pessimistic about human nature, nor did he advocate totalitarianism. By locating him against the context of his age, we learn that Hobbes developed a theory of knowledge which rivalled that of Descartes in its importance for the formation of modern philosophy.

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Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction | Richard Tuck

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It does what it says on the tin, with a first chapter on Hobbes's life and times putting him in his intellectual context, followed by an exploration of his thought, and then how some other philosophers have reacted to him.

The first chapter was interesting and easy to follow but I did struggle a bit more with the second and third chapters.

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