Description
There can be no doubt that Thomas Hobbes intended to create a
complete philosophical system. In recent years, piecemeal analysis has
ignored that intention and reduced his philosophy to an unsystematic
jumble of irreconcilable parts. It is generally believed that
Hobbes's mechanistic physics is at odds with his notorious egoistic
psychology, and that the latter cannot support his prescriptive moral
theory. In this book Gary B. Herbert sets forth an entirely new
interpretation of Hobbes's philosophy that takes seriously
Hobbes's original systematic intention.