The Metaphysical System Of Hobbes In Twelve Chapters From His Elements Of Philosophy Concerning Body, Together With Briefer Extracts From His Human ... Leviathan; Selected By Mary Whiton Calkins

by Thomas Hobbes

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Genres: Philosophy

216 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2006

About the author

Thomas Hobbes was a British philosopher and a seminal thinker of modern political philosophy. His ideas were marked by a mechanistic materialist foundation, a characterization of human nature based on greed and fear of death, and support for an absolute monarchical form of government. His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory.

He was also a scholar of classical Greek history and literature, and produced English translation of Illiad, Odyssey and History of Peloponnesian War.