Description
Study of influence of Anglo-Dutch Enlightenment theorist, author of infamous maxim 'private vices, public benefits'.
Reviews
'Whenever anyone speaks, without bitterness ... of man as a belly with two needs and a head with one; when ever anyone sees, seeks and wants to see only hunger, sexual desire, and vanity, as though these were the actual and sole motives of human actions; in brief, whenever anyone speaks 'badly' of man - but does not speak ill of him - the lover of knowledge should listen carefully and with diligence.' Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
'Though words be the signs we have of another's opinions and intentions; yet, because of the equivocation of them is so frequent according to the diversity of contexture, and the company wherewith they go (which the presence of him that speaketh, our sight of his actions and conjecture of his intentions, must help to discharge us of): It must be extremely hard to find out the opinions and meanings of those men that are gone from us long ago, and have left us no other signification thereof but their books; which cannot possibly be undertook without history enough to discover those aforementioned circumstances, and also without great prudence to observe them. Hobbes, Human Nature
Book Information
ISBN 9780521619424
Author E. J. Hundert
Format Paperback
Page Count 300
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 466g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 150mm * 20mm