Politicized Physics In Seventeenth-Century Philosophy: Essays On Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, And Spinoza

This book examines the role that natural philosophy (that is, doctrines of physics) plays in the emergence of Early Modern political thought. Robert J. Roecklein argues that the natural philosophy of Early Modernity, especially its indictment of sense perception, constitutes a major political foundation for the more concrete doctrines of political science developed by Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, and Spinoza.

• | Author: Robert J. Roecklein
• | Publisher: Lexington Books
• | Publication Date: Feb 19, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 266 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0739188534
• | ISBN-13: 9780739188538