A History of Philosophy Modern Philosophy: The British Philosophers PART [I Hobbes to Paley by Frederick Copleston, S.J. ° i IMAGE BOOKS A Division of Doubleday & Company, Inc. Gatden City, New Yorkby special Image Books Exition 1964 ia] arrangement with The Newman Press ® and Burns & Oates, Ltd. Image Books edition published February, 1964 DE LIGENTIA SUPERIORUM ORDINIS: J. D. Boyle, S.J. Praep. Prov, Angliae NEBIL OBSTAT: J. L. Russell, S.J. Censor Deputatus IMPRIMATUR: ti Francisens Archiepiscopus Birmingamiensis Birmingamiae die 25 Julii 1957 Copyright © 1959 by Frederick Copleston Printed in the tained States of AmericaChapter One; Two: Three: Four: CONTENTS PREFACE HOBBES (1} Life and writings— The end and nature of philosophy and its exclusion of all theology —The divisions of philosophy — Philosophi- eal method—Hebbes’s nominalism —Cau- sality and mechanism — Space and time— Body and accidents — Motion and change — Vital motions and animal motions —Good and evil—The passions— Will— Intellec- tual virtues — Atomic individualism. Honngs (2) , The natural state of war— The jaws of na- ture—The generation of a commonwealth and the theory of the covenant— The rights of the sovereign —The liberty of subjects — Reflections on Hobbes’s political theory. THE CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS Introductory remarks—Lord Herbert of Cherbury and his theery of natural religion — The Cambridge Platonists — Richard Cum- berland, Locks (1) Life and writings—Locke’s moderation and common sense — The purpose of the Essay — The attack on innate ideas—The empiricist principle. Page 11 41 61 76