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Author Velthuysen, Lambert van, 1622-1685.

Title 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
Published Boston : Brill, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 218
Brill's texts and sources in intellectual history ; v. 13
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 218.
Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's texts and sources in intellectual history ; v. 13.
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Political science -- Early works to 1800.
Virtue.
Vice.
Justice.
PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
Justice
Political science
Vice
Virtue
Genre/Form Early works
Form Electronic book
Author De Mowbray, Malcolm.
Secretan, Catherine.
Velthuysen, Lambert van, 1622-1685. Epistolica dissertatio de principiis justi et decori
Velthuysen, Lambert van, 1622-1685. Epistolica dissertatio de principiis justi et decori. English.
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