Leviathan On The Right

Author : Michael D. Tanner
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781933995281

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For conservatives generally and the Republican Party in particular, 2006 was a time of intense soul-searching. For the first time in a dozen years, Republicans lost control of Congress. As a result, they are being forced to reexamine who they are and what they stand for. It’s about time. After all, more than a decade has passed since President Bill Clinton announced in his State of the Union address that “the era of big government is over.” Yet, since then, government has grown far bigger and far more intrusive. It spends more, regulates us more, and reaches far more into our daily lives than it did before the Republican Revolution. Behind this alarming trend stands the rise of a new brand of conservatism—one that believes big government can be used for conservative ends. It is a conservatism that ridicules F. A. Hayek and Barry Goldwater while embracing Teddy and even Franklin Roosevelt. It has more in common with Ted Kennedy than with Ronald Reagan. Leviathan on the Right provides an incisive analysis of the roots and core beliefs of big-government conservatism and the major currents that fueled its growth—neoconservatism, the Religious Right, supply-side economics, national greatness conservatism, and Newt Gingrich–style technophilia—and offers a detailed critique of its policies on a wide range of issues. The book contains a clear warning that, unless conservatives return to their small-government roots, the electoral defeat of 2006 is just the beginning.

Author : Michael Tanner
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781933995007

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Leviathan on the Right by Michael Tanner Pdf

The author of "Social Security and Its Discontents" now maintains that the Bush administration, Congress, and large parts of the Republican Party and the conservative movement have abandoned traditional conservative ideals and embraced the idea of big government.

Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Eric Ortlund
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781514003381

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Piercing Leviathan by Eric Ortlund Pdf

Biblical Foundations Book Awards Finalist One of the most challenging passages in the Old Testament book of Job comes in the Lord's second speech (40–41). The characters and the reader have waited a long time for the Lord to speak—only to read what is traditionally interpreted as a long description of a hippopotamus and crocodile (Behemoth and Leviathan). The stakes are very high: is God right to run the world in such a way that allows such terrible suffering for one of his most loyal servants? Is Job right to keep trusting God in the midst of much criticism? But it is difficult for modern readers to avoid a sense of frustrating anticlimax as the book ends. Eric Ortlund argues that Behemoth and Leviathan are better understood as symbols of cosmic chaos and evil—that a supernatural interpretation fits better exegetically within the book of Job and within Job's ancient Middle Eastern context. It also helps modern readers to appreciate the satisfying climax the narrator intended for the book: in describing Behemoth and Leviathan, God is directly engaging with Job's complaint about divine justice, implying to Job that he understands the evil at loose in his creation better than Job does, is in control of it, and will one day destroy it. In this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume, Ortlund considers different interpretations of the Lord's second speech and their potential exegetical and pastoral weaknesses. He shows how a supernatural interpretation of Behemoth and Leviathan puts modern readers in a position to appreciate the reward of Job's faith (and ours) as we endure in trusting God while living in an unredeemed creation. Addressing key issues in biblical theology, the works comprising New Studies in Biblical Theology are creative attempts to help Christians better understand their Bibles. The NSBT series is edited by D. A. Carson, aiming to simultaneously instruct and to edify, to interact with current scholarship and to point the way ahead.

Author : Susanne Sreedhar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139488303

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Hobbes on Resistance by Susanne Sreedhar Pdf

Hobbes's political theory has traditionally been taken to be an endorsement of state power and a prescription for unconditional obedience to the sovereign's will. In this book, Susanne Sreedhar develops a novel interpretation of Hobbes's theory of political obligation and explores important cases where Hobbes claims that subjects have a right to disobey and resist state power, even when their lives are not directly threatened. Drawing attention to this broader set of rights, her comprehensive analysis of Hobbes's account of political disobedience reveals a unified and coherent theory of resistance that has previously gone unnoticed and undefended. Her book will appeal to all who are interested in the nature and limits of political authority, the right of self-defense, the right of revolution, and the modern origins of these issues.

Author : Scott Westerfeld
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780857070029

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Goliath by Scott Westerfeld Pdf

Alek and Deryn are back onboard the Leviathan. The ship is ordered to pick up Tesla, a Russian inventor who has created a machine he claims can destroy half of the world, which he is using as a threat to impose peace. Alek wants to the end the war, so decides to back Tesla politically, as do the Darwinists. Meanwhile Deryn is still pretending to be a boy, though Alek has figured out her true identity, and promises to keep her secret. With stops in New York, California and Mexico, Deryn and Alek encounter adventure and intrigue at every turn, but when a secret German plan to sabotage Tesla's machine leads to a heart-stopping stand-off, as Tesla threatens to fire his weapon, it's up to the two of them to stop him - or face the end of the world for real…

Author : Jeffrey R. Collins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108478816

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In the Shadow of Leviathan by Jeffrey R. Collins Pdf

Revolutionises our understanding of Hobbes's influence over Locke and their roles within the history of religious freedom and liberalism.

Author : Peter Blegvad
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1590200527

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The Book of Leviathan by Peter Blegvad Pdf

Leviathan is an infant with a blank face who lives in the surreal world of babies along with his stuffed rabbit and pet cat.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Transportation, Automotive
ISBN : MINN:30000010652398

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Author : Steven Shapin,Simon Schaffer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400838493

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Leviathan and the Air-Pump by Steven Shapin,Simon Schaffer Pdf

Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise Leviathan and vehement critic of systematic experimentation in natural philosophy, and Robert Boyle, mechanical philosopher and owner of the newly invented air-pump. The issues at stake in their disputes ranged from the physical integrity of the air-pump to the intellectual integrity of the knowledge it might yield. Both Boyle and Hobbes were looking for ways of establishing knowledge that did not decay into ad hominem attacks and political division. Boyle proposed the experiment as cure. He argued that facts should be manufactured by machines like the air-pump so that gentlemen could witness the experiments and produce knowledge that everyone agreed on. Hobbes, by contrast, looked for natural law and viewed experiments as the artificial, unreliable products of an exclusive guild. The new approaches taken in Leviathan and the Air-Pump have been enormously influential on historical studies of science. Shapin and Schaffer found a moment of scientific revolution and showed how key scientific givens--facts, interpretations, experiment, truth--were fundamental to a new political order. Shapin and Schaffer were also innovative in their ethnographic approach. Attempting to understand the work habits, rituals, and social structures of a remote, unfamiliar group, they argued that politics were tied up in what scientists did, rather than what they said. Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer use the confrontation between Hobbes and Boyle as a way of understanding what was at stake in the early history of scientific experimentation. They describe the protagonists' divergent views of natural knowledge, and situate the Hobbes-Boyle disputes within contemporary debates over the role of intellectuals in public life and the problems of social order and assent in Restoration England. In a new introduction, the authors describe how science and its social context were understood when this book was first published, and how the study of the history of science has changed since then.

Author : Cass R. Sunstein,Adrian Vermeule
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674247536

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Law and Leviathan by Cass R. Sunstein,Adrian Vermeule Pdf

From two legal luminaries, a highly original framework for restoring confidence in a government bureaucracy increasingly derided as “the deep state.” Is the modern administrative state illegitimate? Unconstitutional? Unaccountable? Dangerous? Intolerable? American public law has long been riven by a persistent, serious conflict, a kind of low-grade cold war, over these questions. Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule argue that the administrative state can be redeemed, as long as public officials are constrained by what they call the morality of administrative law. Law and Leviathan elaborates a number of principles that underlie this moral regime. Officials who respect that morality never fail to make rules in the first place. They ensure transparency, so that people are made aware of the rules with which they must comply. They never abuse retroactivity, so that people can rely on current rules, which are not under constant threat of change. They make rules that are understandable and avoid issuing rules that contradict each other. These principles may seem simple, but they have a great deal of power. Already, without explicit enunciation, they limit the activities of administrative agencies every day. But we can aspire for better. In more robust form, these principles could address many of the concerns that have critics of the administrative state mourning what they see as the demise of the rule of law. The bureaucratic Leviathan may be an inescapable reality of complex modern democracies, but Sunstein and Vermeule show how we can at last make peace between those who accept its necessity and those who yearn for its downfall.

Author : Thomas 1588-1679 Hobbes
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1015109462

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Leviathan, Part I. by Thomas 1588-1679 Hobbes Pdf

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Author : Patricia Springborg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139827287

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The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes's Leviathan by Patricia Springborg Pdf

This Companion makes a new departure in Hobbes scholarship, addressing a philosopher whose impact was as great on Continental European theories of state and legal systems as it was at home. This volume is a systematic attempt to incorporate work from both the Anglophone and Continental traditions, bringing together newly commissioned work by scholars from ten different countries in a topic-by-topic sequence of essays that follows the structure of Leviathan, re-examining the relationship among Hobbes's physics, metaphysics, politics, psychology, and religion. Collectively they showcase important revisionist scholarship that re-examines both the context for Leviathan and its reception, demonstrating the degree to which Hobbes was indebted to the long tradition of European humanist thought. This Cambridge Companion shows that Hobbes's legacy was never lost and that he belongs to a tradition of reflection on political theory and governance that is still alive, both in Europe and in the diaspora.

Author : David Gauthier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192843005

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Hobbes and Political Contractarianism by David Gauthier Pdf

This edited text presents a selection of David Gauthier's writings on Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and the theory of political contractarianism. The essays cover topics including Hobbes on law, social contract theory, and public reason.

Author : Paul Auster
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1993-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101562611

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Leviathan by Paul Auster Pdf

A “compelling” (Los Angeles Times) tale of friendship, betrayal, estrangement, and the unpredictable intrusions of violence in the everyday – from the author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel "Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin. . . ." So begins the story by Peter Aaron about his best friend, Benjamin Sachs. Sachs had a marriage Aaron envied, an intelligence he admired, a world he shared. And then suddenly, after a near-fatal fall that might or might not have been intentional, Sachs disappeared. Now Aaron must piece together the life that led to Sach's death. His sole aim is to tell the truth and preserve it, before those who are investigating the case invent an account of their own.