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Work #1515 · Late

The Catching of Leviathan

John Bramhall
1658 (appended to Castigations) · English
Polemical treatise (appendix) · High-Church Anglicanism / anti-Hobbist controversy / political-theological polemic

Bramhall's 1658 'Catching of Leviathan' — arguing Hobbes is materialist-atheist, Erastian, and politically dangerous

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Attribute The Catching of Leviathan (Late)
Time · Extent Finite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom NDet
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Finite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Finite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Immediate
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Limited
Observer · Moral Authority Revelation
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Finite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

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Time

The Catching of Leviathan

1658 — late Bramhall.

Space

The Catching of Leviathan

London publication.

Matter

The Catching of Leviathan

Polemical appendix-treatise.

Observer

The Catching of Leviathan

Late Bramhall on Hobbes's full system.

Energy

The Catching of Leviathan

Wide-ranging anti-Hobbist polemical energies.

Information

The Catching of Leviathan

Single appendix-treatise.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

The Catching of Leviathan

The most influential single anti-Hobbist tract of the seventeenth century from the Anglican high-Church side.