Hobbes And The Law Of Nature

Author : Perez Zagorin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : Kody W. Cooper
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691139807

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Hobbes and the Law of Nature by Perez Zagorin Pdf

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."--Pub. desc.

Author : Norberto Bobbio
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : David Dyzenhaus,Thomas Poole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : S. A. Lloyd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Hobbes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00023142

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The Elements of Law by Hobbes Pdf

Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Natural law
ISBN : NLI:2478293-10

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The Elements of Law by Thomas Hobbes Pdf

Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 55,9 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,Thomas Poole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107022751

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Hobbes and the Law by David Dyzenhaus,Thomas Poole Pdf

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

Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1511917776

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

"The Elements of Law - Natural and Politic" from Thomas Hobbes. English philosopher (1588-1679).

Author : Richard Cumberland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1727
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041207437

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A Treatise of the Laws of Nature by Richard Cumberland Pdf

Author : Stephen A. State
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134050475

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Thomas Hobbes and the Debate over Natural Law and Religion by Stephen A. State Pdf

The argument laid out in this book discusses and interprets the work of Hobbes in relation to religion. It compares a traditional interpretation of Hobbes where Hobbes’ use of conventional terminology when talking about natural law is seen as ironic or merely convenient despite an atheist viewpoint, with the view that Hobbes’ morality is truly traditional and Christian. The book considers other thinkers of the age in tandem with Hobbes and discusses in detail his theology inspired by corporeal mechanics. The position is that there are significant senses in which Hobbes can be said to be a traditional natural law theorist.

Author : Helen Thornton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781580461962

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State of Nature Or Eden? by Helen Thornton Pdf

State of Nature or Eden? Thomas Hobbes and his Contemporaries on the Natural Condition of Human Beings aims to explain how Hobbes's state of nature was understood by a contemporary readership, whose most important reference point for such a condition was the original condition of human beings at the creation, in other words in Eden. The book uses ideas about how readers brought their own reading of other texts to any reading, that reading is affected by the context in which the reader reads, and that the Bible was the model for all reading in the early modern period. It combines these ideas with the primary evidence of the contemporary critical reaction to Hobbes, to reconstruct how Hobbes's state of nature was read by his contemporaries. The book argues that what determined how Hobbes's seventeenth century readers responded to his description of the state of nature were their views on the effects of the Fall. Hobbes's contemporary critics, the majority of whom were Aristotelians and Arminians, thought that the Fall had corrupted human nature, although not to the extent implied by Hobbes's description. Further, they wanted to look at human beings as they should have been, or ought to be. Hobbes, on the other hand, wanted to look at human beings as they were, and in doing so was closer to Augustinian, Lutheran and Reformed interpretations, which argued that nature had been inverted by the Fall. For those of Hobbes's contemporaries who shared these theological assumptions, there were important parallels to be seen between Hobbes's account and that of scripture, although on some points his description could have been seen as a subversion of scripture. The book also demonstrates that Hobbes was working within the Protestant tradition, as well as showing how he used different aspects of this tradition. Helen Thornton is an Independent Scholar. She completed her PhD at the University of Hull.