Thomas
Hobbes,
the
first
great
English
political
philosopher,
has
long
had
the
reputation
of
being
a
pessimistic
atheist,
who
saw
human
nature
as
inevitably
evil
and
proposed
a
totalitarian
state
to
subdue
human
failings.
In
this
illuminating
study,
Richard
Tuck
re-evaluates
Hobbes's
philosophy
and
dispels
these
myths,
revealing
him
to
have
been
passionately
concerned
with
the
refutation
of
scepticism,
and
to
have
developed
a
theory
of
knowledge
which
rivalled
thatof
Descartes
in
its
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lucid
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the
first
great
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political
philosopherVery
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Nota biografica
Richard
Tuck
is
Professor
of
Government
at
Harvard
University.
He
is
the
author
of
Natural
Rights
Theories
(1979)
and
Philosophy
and
Government
1572-1651
(1993),
and
has
produced
editions
of
Hobbes's
Leviathan
and
(with
Michael
Silverthorne)
De
Cive.
