Introduction -- Noble tutor -- Civil history and style in Thucydides -- Poetry and natural history in the peak -- Aristotle's rhetoric in the schoolroom -- Logic, rhetoric, and philosophy -- Discovery, proof, and style -- Thetoric and Leviathan -- Conclusion.
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Thomas Hobbes claimed to have founded the discipline of civil philosophy. This book offers a new reading of his intellectual development, arguing that he was dubious about the place of rhetoric in civil society and came to see it as a pernicious presence within philosophy - a position from which he did not retreat.