Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes

Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9780198829690
ISBN-13 : 0198829698
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Book Synopsis Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes by : Timothy Raylor

Download or read book Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes written by Timothy Raylor and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hobbes claimed to have founded the discipline of civil philosophy. This book offers a new reading of his intellectual development, arguing that he was dubious about the place of rhetoric in civil society and came to see it as a pernicious presence within philosophy - a position from which he did not retreat.

Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes

Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 394
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ISBN-10 : 0521554365
ISBN-13 : 9780521554367
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Book Synopsis Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes by : Quentin Skinner

Download or read book Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes written by Quentin Skinner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-22 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outstanding new interpretation of Hobbes, one of the most difficult and challenging of political philosophers.

Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes

Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9780192565211
ISBN-13 : 0192565214
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Book Synopsis Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes by : Timothy Raylor

Download or read book Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes written by Timothy Raylor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hobbes claimed to have founded the discipline of civil philosophy (political science). The claim did not go uncontested and in recent years the relationship of philosophical reasoning to rhetorical persuasion in Hobbes's work has become a significant area of discussion, as scholars attempt to align his disparaging remarks about rhetoric with his dazzling practice of it in works like Leviathan. The dominant view is that, having rejected an early commitment to humanism and with it rhetoric when he adopted the 'scientific' approach to philosophy in the late 1630s, Hobbes later came to re-embrace it as an essential aid to or part of philosophy. Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes proposes that Hobbes was, from first to last, dubious about the place of rhetoric in civil society, and came to see it as a pernicious presence within philosophy - a position from which he did not retreat. It offers a fresh and expanded picture of Hobbes's humanism by examining his years as a country house tutor; his teaching and his translation of Thucydides, the influence on him of Bacon, and the range of his early natural historical and philosophical interests. In demonstrating the distinctively Aristotelian character of his understanding of rhetoric, the book also revisits the new approach to philosophy Hobbes adopted at the end of the 1630s, clarifying the nature and scope of his concern about the contamination of philosophy and political life by the procedures of rhetorical argumentation.

The Rhetoric of Leviathan

The Rhetoric of Leviathan
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9780691219325
ISBN-13 : 069121932X
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Book Synopsis The Rhetoric of Leviathan by : David Johnston

Download or read book The Rhetoric of Leviathan written by David Johnston and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The description for this book, The Rhetoric of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Cultural Transformation, will be forthcoming.

From Humanism to Hobbes

From Humanism to Hobbes
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 448
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ISBN-10 : 9781108622431
ISBN-13 : 1108622437
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Book Synopsis From Humanism to Hobbes by : Quentin Skinner

Download or read book From Humanism to Hobbes written by Quentin Skinner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this collection is to illustrate the pervasive influence of humanist rhetoric on early-modern literature and philosophy. The first half of the book focuses on the classical rules of judicial rhetoric. One chapter considers the place of these rules in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, while two others concentrate on the technique of rhetorical redescription, pointing to its use in Machiavelli's The Prince as well as in several of Shakespeare's plays, notably Coriolanus. The second half of the book examines the humanist background to the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. A major new essay discusses his typically humanist preoccupation with the visual presentation of his political ideas, while other chapters explore the rhetorical sources of his theory of persons and personation, thereby offering new insights into his views about citizenship, political representation, rights and obligations and the concept of the state.

Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Natural Philosophy

Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Natural Philosophy
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 206
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ISBN-10 : 9781847143310
ISBN-13 : 1847143318
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Book Synopsis Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Natural Philosophy by : Stephen J. Finn

Download or read book Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Natural Philosophy written by Stephen J. Finn and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-06-04 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1625, Charles I inherited not only his father's crown, but also his desire to run the country without interference from Parliament. But many members of Parliament opposed the King on issues of taxation, religion and the royal prerogative. It was in this historical context that Hobbes presented a political philosophy that, at least in his opinion, achieved the status of a science, in a nation that was 'boiling hot with questions concerning the rights of dominion and the obedience due from subjects'. In this important new book, Stephen J. Finn argues that, contrary to the traditional interpretation, Hobbes's political views influence his theoretical and natural philosophy and not the other way about. Such an interpretation, it is argued, provides a better appreciation of Hobbes's writings, both philosophical and political.

The Rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes and Bernard Lamy

The Rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes and Bernard Lamy
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Publisher : SIU Press
Total Pages : 428
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ISBN-10 : 9780809386826
ISBN-13 : 0809386828
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Book Synopsis The Rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes and Bernard Lamy by : John T. Harwood

Download or read book The Rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes and Bernard Lamy written by John T. Harwood and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Makes accessible to modern readers the 17th-century rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes (1588–1677) and Bernard Lamy (1640–1715) Hobbes’ A Briefe of the Art of Rhetorique, the first English translation of Aristotle’s rhetoric, reflects Hobbes’ sense of rhetoric as a central instrument of self-defense in an increasingly fractious Commonwealth. In its approach to rhetoric, which Hobbes defines as “that Faculty by which wee understand what will serve our turne, concerning any subject, to winne beliefe in the hearer,” the Briefe looks forward to Hobbes’ great political works De Cive and Leviathan. Published anonymously in France as De l’art de parler, Lamy’s rhetoric was translated immediately into English as The Art of Speaking. Lamy’s long association with the Port Royalists made his works especially attractive to English readers because Port Royalists were engaged in a vicious quarrel with the Jesuits during the last half of the 17th century.