A Letter on the Principles of Justness and Decency, Containing a Defence of the Treatise "De Cive" of the Learned Mr. Hobbes
Lambert van Velthuysen, Malcolm de Mowbray, Catherine Secretan
Although little known today, the Utrecht physician and town councillor Lambert van Velthuysen (1622 1685) was a prolific Dutch seventeenth-century philosopher and a vociferous advocate of the new philosophies of Descartes and Hobbes. The Letter on the Principles of Justness and Decency of 1651 constitutes both the first published reaction to Hobbes's political philosophy and the first attempt by a Dutch philosopher at using Hobbes to supply a Cartesian moral philosophy. It is also a highly original work that seeks to define the nature of virtue and vice and to justify the magistrate's right to punish crimes. It will thus be of interest not only to historians of philosophy but to all those interested in the social and cultural history of the Dutch Golden Age."
年:
2013
出版社:
Brill Academic Publishers
语言:
english
页:
293
ISBN 10:
900422565X
系列:
Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 218, Brill’s Texts and Sources in Intellectual History 13
文件:
PDF, 1.12 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2013