Titlebook: Hobbes‘s Creativity; James J. Hamilton Book 2023 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Natu

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t, they are necessary to determine which of Hobbes‘s ideas and theories are original and which are not. Second, analysis of his creativity requires an understanding of the ideas from which he drew. Hamilton concludes that Hobbes became a great philosopher because of his creative virtuosity..978-3-031-27735-1978-3-031-27733-7

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The Psychology of Creativity and Hobbes,nking in different areas of his thought. This chapter defines creativity, explains why the traditional rationalistic and Romantic views of it are wrong, describes some types of creative cognition that will occur in our study, and outlines its approach.

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The State of Nature,ne six components of his theory in turn: the concept of the state of nature, the theory of history as progress, the idea of anarchy, the concepts of moral relativity and subjective right, the effective equality of people in the state of nature, and a group of passions that promote competition and wa

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,Hobbes’s Development, Personality, and Motivation,omain, not in challenging its received wisdom and striking out on their own. A special personality is required for high creativity. But a person’s personality can be inferred only from examining her behavior and experience from her reactions to the environment. This chapter is about Hobbes and his e

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Cognition and the Passions,we examine his theory of cognition, which seems to have drawn upon ancient, medieval, and Renaissance ideas as well as contemporary scientific discoveries. Hobbes’s model of the cognitive faculties seems to have been the result of cross fertilization of ideas from different domains and different par

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Moral Relativity and the Sovereign,ilosophical schools on the grounds that their doctrines are all equally plausible and we can never know which is true. The destructive consequences of a skeptical doctrine that questioned the value of all knowledge undermined traditional philosophy and raised doubts about the validity of the new sci

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