A Letter on the Principles of Justness and Decency, Containing a Defence of the Treatise De Cive of the Learned Mr Hobbes
Lambert van Velthuysen. Edited and translated by Malcolm de Mowbray. With an introduction by Catherine Secretan.
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Biographical note
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.
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).
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).
Readership
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.
Table of contents
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
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
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