Bøger af Thomas A. Spragens

Two principal issues interact and overlap in this penetrating analysis: the relationship between Hobbes' natural philosophy and his civil philosophy, and the relationship between Hobbes' thought and the Aristotelian world view that constituted the philosophical orthodoxy he rejected. On the first point Thomas A.

Argues that if twenty-first century American liberalism defines its main mission as the egalitarian reallocation of social resources, it will doom itself to political futility and defeat.

Thomas A. Spragens argues that we should recover the multiple and complex aspirations found within the tradition of democratic liberalism and integrate them into a more compelling public philosophy for our time - or what he calls civic liberalism.