Introduction: physics and politics -- Francis Bacon's uncharitable charity : the birth of a new rationality -- Descartes and the science of authority -- Hobbes's natural science -- Hobbes's "right of nature" and the politics of agony -- On Spinoza's "substance" or "God" -- Conclusion: early modern philosophy, just the facts.
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