A letter on the principles of justness and decency : containing a defence of the treatise De cive of the learned Mr. Hobbes

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.

The Letter on the Principles of Justness and Decency (1651) by Lambert van Velthuysen deduces the nature of virtue and vice and the right to punish crimes from the Hobbesian principle of self-preservation.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Velthuysen, Lambert van, 1622-1685
Other Authors: De Mowbray, Malcolm, Secretan, Catherine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Latin
Published: Boston : Brill, 2013.
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 218.
Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's texts and sources in intellectual history ; v. 13.
Subjects:
Political science > Early works to 1800.
Virtue.
Vice.
Justice.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
Justice
Political science
Vice
Virtue
Early works
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; Translator's Preface; 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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