Hobbes, Bramhall and the Politics of Liberty and Necessity A Quarrel of the Civil Wars and Interregnum
Historians may know that sometime in the seventeenth century the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes debated John Bramhall, Bishop of Derry. But where and what did they debate? And why did they debate the issues they did? It is not difficult to find brief descriptions or summaries of their public...
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Cambridge University Press
2013
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| Summary: | Historians may know that sometime in the seventeenth century the English
philosopher Thomas Hobbes debated John Bramhall, Bishop of Derry. But
where and what did they debate? And why did they debate the issues they
did? It is not difficult to find brief descriptions or summaries of their public
debate on free-will; this book provides the first comprehensive account not
only of that debate, but also of their private quarrel and hostile relations
during both the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and Interregnum. Hobbes and
Bramhall argued about much more than ‘liberty’ and ‘necessity’ (free-will and
determinism), and the following account offers a detailed historical explanation
of their debating those and other issues. By situating their long and
acrimonious, private and public, dispute within its contemporary context
we may come to view the whole quarrel as a by-product or collateral intellectual
skirmish of those rebellions and wars in the British Isles. |
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