Hobbes’s materialism and Epicurean mechanism.
Hobbes belonged to philosophical and scientific circles grappling with the big question at the dawn of modern physics: materialism and its consequences for morality. ‘Matter in motion’ may be a core principle of this materialism but it is certainly inadequate to capture the whole project. In wave af...
| Publicado en: | British Journal for the History of Philosophy Vol. 24; no. 5; pp. 814 - 836 |
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