Hobbes And The Law

Author : David Dyzenhaus,Thomas Poole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139576949

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Hobbes and the Law by David Dyzenhaus,Thomas Poole Pdf

Hobbes's political thought provokes a perennial fascination. It has become particularly prominent in recent years, with the surge of scholarly interest evidenced by a number of monographs in political theory and philosophy. At the same time, there has been a turn in legal scholarship towards political theory in a way that engages recognisably Hobbesian themes, for example the relationship between security and liberty. However, there is surprisingly little engagement with Hobbes's views on legal theory in general and on certain legal topics, despite the fact that Hobbes devoted whole works to legal inquiry and gave law a prominent role in his works focused on politics. This volume seeks to remedy this gap by providing the first collection of specially commissioned essays devoted to Hobbes and the law.

Author : Kody W. Cooper
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780268103040

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Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law by Kody W. Cooper Pdf

Has Hobbesian moral and political theory been fundamentally misinterpreted by most of his readers? Since the criticism of John Bramhall, Hobbes has generally been regarded as advancing a moral and political theory that is antithetical to classical natural law theory. Kody W. Cooper challenges this traditional interpretation of Hobbes in Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law. Hobbes affirms two essential theses of classical natural law theory: the capacity of practical reason to grasp intelligible goods or reasons for action and the legally binding character of the practical requirements essential to the pursuit of human flourishing. Hobbes’s novel contribution lies principally in his formulation of a thin theory of the good. This book seeks to prove that Hobbes has more in common with the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition of natural law philosophy than has been recognized. According to Cooper, Hobbes affirms a realistic philosophy as well as biblical revelation as the ground of his philosophical-theological anthropology and his moral and civil science. In addition, Cooper contends that Hobbes's thought, although transformative in important ways, also has important structural continuities with the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition of practical reason, theology, social ontology, and law. What emerges from this study is a nuanced assessment of Hobbes’s place in the natural law tradition as a formulator of natural law liberalism. This book will appeal to political theorists and philosophers and be of particular interest to Hobbes scholars and natural law theorists.

Author : Perez Zagorin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400832026

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Hobbes and the Law of Nature by Perez Zagorin Pdf

This is the first major work in English to explore at length the meaning, context, aims, and vital importance of Thomas Hobbes's concepts of the law of nature and the right of nature. Hobbes remains one of the most challenging and controversial of early modern philosophers, and debates persist about the interpretation of many of his ideas, particularly his views about natural law and natural right. In this book, Perez Zagorin argues that these two concepts are the twin foundations of the entire structure of Hobbes's moral and political thought. Zagorin clears up numerous misconceptions about Hobbes and his relation to earlier natural law thinkers, in particular Hugo Grotius, and he reasserts the often overlooked role of the Hobbesian law of nature as a moral standard from which even sovereign power is not immune. Because Hobbes is commonly thought to be primarily a theorist of sovereignty, political absolutism, and unitary state power, the significance of his moral philosophy is often underestimated and widely assumed to depend entirely on individual self-interest. Zagorin reveals Hobbes's originality as a moral philosopher and his importance as a thinker who subverted and transformed the idea of natural law. Hobbes and the Law of Nature is a major contribution to our understanding of Hobbes's moral, legal, and political philosophy, and a book rich in interpretive and critical insights into Hobbes's writing and thought.

Author : Norberto Bobbio
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1993-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226062481

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Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition by Norberto Bobbio Pdf

Pre-eminent among European political philosophers, Norberto Bobbio has throughout his career turned to the political theory of Thomas Hobbes. Gathered here for the first time are the most important of his essays which together provide both a valuable introduction to Hobbes's thought and a fresh understanding of Hobbes's place in the theory of modern politics. Tracing Hobbes's work through De Cive and Leviathan, Bobbio identifies the philosopher's relation to the tradition of natural law. That Hobbes must now be understood in both this tradition as well as in the seemingly contradictory positivist tradition becomes clear for the first time in Bobbio's account. Bobbio also demonstrates that Hobbes cannot be easily labelled "liberal" or "totalitarian"; in Bobbio's provocative analysis of Hobbes's justification of the state, Hobbes emerges as a true conservative. Though his primary concern is to reconstruct the inner logic of Hobbes's thought, Bobbio is also attentive to the philosopher's biography and weaves into his analysis details of Hobbes's life and world—his exile in France, his relation with the Mersenne circle, his disputes with Anglican bishops, and accusations of heresy leveled against him. The result is a revealing, thoroughly new portrait of the first theorist of the modern state.

Author : Tom Sorell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521422442

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The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes by Tom Sorell Pdf

The most convenient, accessible guide to Hobbes available.

Author : Claire Oakes Finkelstein
Publisher : Ashgate Pub Limited
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 0754621782

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Hobbes on Law by Claire Oakes Finkelstein Pdf

In the course of articulating his monumental theory of political justification, Thomas Hobbes developed a sustained and detailed approach to law and legal questions. This collection provides an excellent survey of the various legal questions addressed by Hobbes.

Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 0226345416

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A Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England by Thomas Hobbes Pdf

This little-known late writing of Hobbes reveals an unexplored dimension of his famous doctrine of sovereignty. The essay was first published posthumously in 1681, and from 1840 to 1971 only a generally unreliable edition has been in print. This edition provides the first dependable and easily accessible text of Hobbes's Dialogue. In the Dialogue, Hobbes sets forth his mature reflections of the relation between reason and law, reflections more "liberal" than those found in Leviathan and his other well-known writings. Hobbes proposes a separation of the functions of government in the interest of common sense and humaneness without visibly violating his dictum that the sharing or division of sovereignty is an absurdity. This new edition of the Dialogue is a significant contribution to our understanding of seventeenth-century political philosophy. "Hobbes students are indebted to Professor Cropsey for this scholarly and accessible edition of Dialogue."—J. Roland Pennock, American Political Science Review "An invaluable aid to the study of Hobbes."—Review of Metaphysics

Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Law
ISBN : EAN:8596547019671

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The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic by Thomas Hobbes Pdf

In The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic, philosopher Thomas Hobbes endeavors to enlighten the bond between physics, psychology and politics. Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher, considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. In addition to political philosophy, Hobbes contributed to a diverse array of other fields, including history, jurisprudence, geometry, the physics of gases, theology, and ethics, as well as philosophy in general.

Author : S. A. Lloyd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521861670

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Morality in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes by S. A. Lloyd Pdf

In this book, S. A. Lloyd offers a radically new interpretation of Hobbes's laws of nature, revealing them to be not egoistic precepts of personal prudence but rather moral instructions for obtaining the common good. This account of Hobbes's moral philosophy stands in contrast to both divine command and rational choice interpretations. Drawing from the core notion of reciprocity, Lloyd explains Hobbes's system of "cases in the law of nature" and situates Hobbes's moral philosophy in the broader context of his political philosophy and views on religion. Offering ingenious new arguments, Lloyd defends a reciprocity interpretation of the laws of nature through which humanity's common good is secured.

Author : David Dyzenhaus,Thomas M. Poole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : 1139570080

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Hobbes and the Law by David Dyzenhaus,Thomas M. Poole Pdf

Essays devoted to the legal thought of Thomas Hobbes, arguably the greatest political philosopher to write in English.

Author : Hobbes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00023142

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The Elements of Law by Hobbes Pdf

Author : David Dyzenhaus,Thomas M. Poole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1139570994

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Hobbes and the Law by David Dyzenhaus,Thomas M. Poole Pdf

Essays devoted to the legal thought of Thomas Hobbes, arguably the greatest political philosopher to write in English.

Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : 019283682X

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The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic by Thomas Hobbes Pdf

This work was originally published in 1650 as two separate books, Human nature, and De corpore politico. Human nature contained the first 13 chapters, De Corpore politico contained chapters 14 thru 19 of the first work, and chapters 20 thru 29. The present edition considers chapters 1 thru 19 as part 1, Human nature, and chapters 20 thru 29 as part 2, De corpore politico.

Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486122144

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Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes Pdf

Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures were in flux and open to interpretation, Leviathan played an essential role in the development of the modern world.

Author : David Dyzenhaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316518052

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The Long Arc of Legality by David Dyzenhaus Pdf

Explores how the central question of philosophy of law is the legal subject's: how can that be law for me?