STARTING WITH HOBBES

Book ID/图书代码： 12771008B28868

English Summary/英文概要： Thomas Hobbes was one of the most important and influential philosophers of the seventeenth century. Covering all the key concepts of his work, Starting with Hobbes provides an accessible introduction to the ideas of this hugely significant thinker.

Thematically structured, this book leads the reader through the full range of Hobbes’s ideas and, uniquely, not just his political philosophy. In his day, he was internationally as famous for his theories about knowledge, language, the material nature of reality, mathematics, psychology, and religion, as he was for his politics; and these aspects of his work are fully covered. The book places Hobbes firmly in his historical context, with discussions of his relations to contemporary thinkers such as Galileo and Descartes and of his influence on later thinkers such as Spinoza and Leibniz. This is the ideal introduction for anyone coming to the work of one of the greatest of English philosophers for the first time.

Table Of Contents
Introduction
1. Life and Works
2. Theory of Knowledge
3. Materialism
4. The Human Being
5. Society
6. Religion
7. Hobbes’s Influence
Further Reading
Continuing with Hobbes
Index

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Continuum出版的Starting with…系列對哲學思想研究領域的關鍵人物提供了清晰、簡明的介紹，探究闡明了這些哲學家思想的根源，使讀者能夠明晰這些先知對後世的影響及所奠定的哲學基礎。對欲進行此科目鑽研或此專業的學生來說，本系列書籍無疑是一個絕佳伴侶。

湯瑪斯•霍布斯是十七世紀最重要、最有影響力的哲學思想家之一。Starting with Hobbes是對這位哲學家思想的概括總結和導入介紹，通俗易懂。 這本書引領讀者全方位解讀霍布斯，而不只是他的政治理念。雖然霍布斯最知名的是政治哲學的著作，但他也有許多其他主題的作品，包括了語言，數學，心理，宗教以及物質本質，所有這些在他的作品中均有體現。本書緊緊圍繞霍布斯當時所處的歷史環境，討論他和同時代其他思想家諸如伽利略和笛卡爾的關係，以及他的哲學論點對斯賓諾莎和萊布尼茨的影響。此書可以讓你對英國最偉大的哲學家湯瑪斯•霍布斯有一個整體性的瞭解。(Claire)

Awards/获奖情况：“Starting with Hobbes is an important and in many ways original account of Hobbes’s philosophy which not only covers Hobbes’s importance as the greatest of British political theorists but shows how his political thought is integrated with his wider philosophy … A major feature of this work as a textbook for students today is that Ross has supplied a modern version of Hobbes’s seventeenth-century English, often by translating his text from Hobbes’s original Latin. The result is a work which is easier to understand for modern students and which often supplies a better version than that supplied by Hobbes’s contemporary translators and is sometimes clearer than even Hobbes’s own magnificent English.”---Professor G.A.J Rogers, Keele University, UK

About the Author/作者介绍： George MacDonald Ross is Director of the Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds, UK. In 2006 he was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship for his contribution to the improvement of learning and teaching in higher education in the UK.
喬治•麥克唐納•羅斯擔任哲學與宗教科目研究中心負責人，並任英國里茲大學哲學系高級講師。2006年，由於他在全國教育教學改進的卓越貢獻，而被授予國家教學獎金。

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