Thom Hobbes Malmesburiensis Opera Philosophica Qu Latine Scripsit Omnia in Unum Corpus Nunc Primum Collecta Studio et Labore Gulielmi Molesworth.

Publisher Marketing: Title: Thom Hobbes Malmesburiensis opera philosophica qu Latine scripsit omnia in unum corpus nunc primum collecta studio et labore Gulielmi Molesworth. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY & ETHICS collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The works in this collection include expositions and scholarly analyses of philosophy and ethics for the earliest recorded Western religious and secular works. Documents concern prehistoric, medieval, and modern times, with background and historical narratives on Western thought. The collection provides insights into how philosophies have changed through history, what has driven these changes, and to what degree philosophical texts from prior eras are understood in the contemporary times of the authors. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Hobbes, Thomas; Molesworth, William; 1839-45. 5 vol.; 8 . 722.k.1-5. Contributor Bio:  Hobbes, Thomas About The Author Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury (1588 - 1679) was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy. His 1651 book Leviathan established social contract theory, the foundation of most later Western political philosophy. Though on rational grounds a champion of absolutism for the sovereign, Hobbes also developed some of the fundamentals of European liberal thought: the right of the individual; the natural equality of all men; the artificial character of the political order (which led to the later distinction between civil society and the state); the view that all legitimate political power must be "representative" and based on the consent of the people; and a liberal interpretation of law which leaves people free to do whatever the law does not explicitly forbid. He was one of the founders of modern political philosophy and political science. His understanding of humans as being matter and motion, obeying the same physical laws as other matter and motion, remains influential; and his account of human nature as self-interested cooperation, and of political communities as being based upon a "social contract" remains one of the major topics of political philosophy. In addition to political philosophy, Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of other fields, including history, geometry, the physics of gases, theology, ethics, and general philosophy.