Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity

出版者:Cambridge University Press

作者:Thomas Hobbes

页数:140

出版时间:1999-3-28

价格:USD 36.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780521596688

丛书系列:Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy

图书标签:霍布斯Hobbes近代哲学论文相关哲学EarlyModern

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.