Thomas Hobbes (key Texts)

This is an introductory sketch of the life and thought of Thomas Hobbes. The book is constructed from the texts of Hobbes and his contemporary biographers, as well as later studies by Croom Robertson, Tonnies and Leslie Stephen. Chapters are included on: philosophy, its scope and methods; empirical psychology - the nature of man; the making of Leviathan; the powers of the sovereign; church and state; and a list of books useful to the student of Hobbes.