Hobbes, Bramhall and the Politics of Liberty and Necessity: A Quarrel of the Civil Wars and Interregnum

Abstract

Introduction 1. Bishop Bramhall, the 'Great Arminian', 'Irish Canterbury' and 'Most Unsound Man in Ireland', 1633-41 2. Bishop Bramhall, the Earl of Newcastle, Thomas Hobbes and the first English Civil War 3. Hobbes's flight to France, De Cive and the beginning of the quarrel with Bramhall, summer 1645 4. An epistolary skirmish, 1645-6: Bramhall, 'Discourse', Hobbes, 'Treatise' and Bramhall, 'Vindication' 5. Bramhall and the Royalist schemes of 1646-50 6. Hobbes and Leviathan among the exiles, 1646-51 7. The public quarrel: Hobbes, Of Liberty and Necessity, 1654, Bramhall, Defence of True Liberty, 1655 and Hobbes, Questions concerning Necessity, Liberty and Chance, 1656 8. Castigations of Hobbes's Animadversions and The Catching of Leviathan, 1657-8: Hobbes as Leviathan of Leviathans 9. The restoration and death of Bramhall and Hobbes's last word, 1668 Conclusion.

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