Table of Contents

Preface

Notice to the Reader
Abbreviations

Introduction
Hobbes and the Aristotelians
Philosophia Prima
Aristotelianism
The Scope and structure of this Study

Chapter 1 Hobbes and the Aristotelians on Prima Philosophia
Introduction
1. Prima Philosophia as a Discipline of the Non-Transcendent
2. Prima Philosophia as Physica Generalis
3. Prima Philosophia as a Science of Principles and Definitions

Chapter 2 Sense Perception and Imagination
Introduction
1. Sense Perception in the Short Tract
2. Hobbes' Later Doctrine of Sense Perception
Conclusion: Aristotelianism, Mechanicism, and Renaissance Pansensism

Chapter 3 Space and Time
Introduction
1. Hobbes’ Concept of Space
2. Hobbes’ Concept of Time

Chapter 4 Body and Accident
Introduction
1. Substance and Accident in the Short Tract
2. Hobbes’ Concept of Body in De Corpore
3. Hobbes’ Concept of Accident in De Corpore
Epilogue: The Principle of Individuation

Chapter 5 Causality, Motion and Necessity
Introduction
1. Motion, Causality and Necessity in the Short Tract
2. Causality, Motion, and Necessity in Hobbes’ Later Works

Conclusion

Bibliography
Primary Literature
Studies

Index Nominum

About the Author

Cees Leijenhorst, Ph.D. (1998) in Philosophy, Utrecht University (Netherlands), is Research Fellow at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Natural Philosophy at Nijmegen University (Netherlands). He has published on the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, Renaissance natural philosophy and Hermeticism.