A Letter on the Principles of Justness and Decency, Containing a Defence of the Treatise de Cive of the Learned MR Hobbes

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-22565-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 218/13, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History / Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History

Although little known today, the Utrecht physician and town councillor Lambert van Velthuysen (1622–1685) was a prolific Dutch seventeenth-century philosopher and a vociferous advocate of the new philosophies of Descartes and Hobbes. The Letter on the Principles of Justness and Decency of 1651 constitutes both the first published reaction to Hobbes's political philosophy and the first attempt by a Dutch philosopher at using Hobbes to supply a ‘Cartesian’ moral philosophy. It is also a highly original work that seeks to define the nature of virtue and vice and to justify the magistrate's right to punish crimes. It will thus be of interest not only to historians of philosophy but to all those interested in the social and cultural history of the Dutch Golden Age.

Zielgruppe

All interested in the history of philosophy, especially ethics and politics and the influence of Descartes and Hobbes, and in the cultural and religious history of the Dutch Golden Age.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Velthuysen, Lambert van

de Mowbray, Malcolm

Weitere Mitwirkende

Secretan, Catherine

de Mowbray, Malcolm

Mowbray, Malcolm de

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Translator’s Preface i
Introduction

A Letter on the Principles of Justness and Decency
Preface to the Reader
On the Principles of Justness and Decency
A Demonstration from Holy Scripture

Epistolica dissertatio de principiis justi et decori
Praefatio ad Lectorem
De principiis justi et decori
Probatio quaestionum quarundam ex Scriptura sacra

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mowbray, Malcolm de
Malcolm de Mowbray is an author and translator specializing in the history of science and philosophy. He has worked extensively on Dutch seventeenth-century philosophy and, more recently, the Middle Ages.

Secretan, Catherine
Catherine Secretan, Ph. D. (1980), is Directrice de recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France). She has published monographs, translations and many scholarly papers, including Le marchand philosophe de Gaspar Barlaeus (Champion, 2002) and The Self-Perception of Early Modern Capitalists (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, with Margaret Jacob).