Thomas Hobbes es célebre por su obra en filosofía política. Sin embargo, aunque menos conocida, existe una importante reflexión teológica hobbesiana, que se ubica dentro del marco de la tradición protestante. En el presente artículo exponemos un aspecto tal reflexión: rechazo a lo considera inserción elementos extraños, provenientes cultura griega y añadidos teología escolástica, simple mensaje...

STEVEN SHAPIN and SIMON SCHAFFER, Leviathan and the air-pump. Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life. Including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris, by Simon Schaffer, Princeton University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xiv, 440, illus., £43.00. In his History ofthe Royal Society ofLondon, published in 1667 as an explanation and defence ofmen who spent their time weighing...

Naturalization without Natural Kinds: On the prospects of a unified theory of religion. From the propagation of religion, it is not hard to understand the causes of the resolution of the same into its first seeds or principles; which are only an opinion of a deity, and powers invisible and supernatural; that can never be so abolished out of human nature but that new religions may again be made ...