Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity Hardback
by Thomas Hobbes, John Bramhall
Edited by Vere (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Chappell
Part of the Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy series
Hardback
Description
Do human beings ever act freely, and if so what does freedom mean?
Is everything that happens antecedently caused, and if so how is freedom possible?
Is it right, even for God, to punish people for things that they cannot help doing?
This volume presents the famous seventeenth-century controversy in which Thomas Hobbes and John Bramhall debate these questions and others.
The complete texts of their initial contributions to the debate are included, together with selections from their subsequent replies to one another and from other works of Hobbes, in a collection that offers an illuminating commentary on issues still of concern to philosophers today.
The volume is completed by a historical and philosophical introduction that explains the context in which the debate took place.
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- Pages:140 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:22/04/1999
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- ISBN:9780521593434
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:140 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:22/04/1999
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521593434
