The Political Philosophy Of Hobbes

Author : S. A. Lloyd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 294 pages
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Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108246521

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Interpreting Hobbes's Political Philosophy by S. A. Lloyd Pdf

The essays in this volume provide a state-of-the-art overview of the central elements of Hobbes's political philosophy and the ways in which they can be interpreted. The volume's contributors offer their own interpretations of Hobbes's philosophical method, his materialism, his psychological theory and moral theory, and his views on benevolence, law and civil liberties, religion, and women. Hobbes's ideas of authorization and representation, his use of the 'state of nature', and his reply to the unjust 'Foole' are also critically analyzed. The essays will help readers to orient themselves in the complex scholarly literature while also offering groundbreaking arguments and innovative interpretations. The volume as a whole will facilitate new insights into Hobbes's political theory, enabling readers to consider key elements of his thought from multiple perspectives and to select and combine them to form their own interpretations of his political philosophy.

Author : A. P. Martinich
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780197531716

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Hobbes's Political Philosophy by A. P. Martinich Pdf

'Hobbes's Political Philosophy' clarifies Hobbes's positions by examining what Hobbes considered a science of politics, a set of timeless truths grounded in definitions. A.P. Martinich explains this science of politics, examining Hobbes's views on the laws of nature, authorization and representation, sovereignty by acquisition, and others. He argues that in addition to the timeless science, Hobbes had two timebound projects. The first was to eliminate the apparent conflict between the new science of Copernicus and Galileo and the second was to show that Christianity is not politically destabilizing.--

Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1795107529

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Leviathan.: Political Philosophy by Thomas Hobbes Pdf

Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil-commonly referred to as Leviathan-is a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and published in 1651 (revised Latin edition 1668).Its name derives from the biblical Leviathan. The work concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory. Leviathan ranks as a classic Western work on statecraft comparable to Machiavelli's The Prince. Written during the English Civil War (1642-1651), Leviathan argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Hobbes wrote that civil war and the brute situation of a state of nature ("the war of all against all") could only be avoided by strong, undivided government.

Author : Zarka Yves Charles Zarka
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474401203

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Hobbes and Modern Political Thought by Zarka Yves Charles Zarka Pdf

Yves Charles Zarka shows you how Hobbes established the framework for modern political thought. Discover the origin of liberalism in the Hobbesian theory of negative liberty; that Hobbesian interest and contract are essential to contemporary discussions of the comportment of economic actors; and how state sovereignty returns anew in the form of the servility of the state. At the same time, Zarka controversially argues against received readings claiming that Hobbes is a thinker of a state monopoly on legitimate violence.

Author : Stephen J. Finn
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847143310

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Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Natural Philosophy by Stephen J. Finn Pdf

In 1625, Charles I inherited not only his father's crown, but also his desire to run the country without interference from Parliament. But many members of Parliament opposed the King on issues of taxation, religion and the royal prerogative. It was in this historical context that Hobbes presented a political philosophy that, at least in his opinion, achieved the status of a science, in a nation that was 'boiling hot with questions concerning the rights of dominion and the obedience due from subjects'. In this important new book, Stephen J. Finn argues that, contrary to the traditional interpretation, Hobbes's political views influence his theoretical and natural philosophy and not the other way about. Such an interpretation, it is argued, provides a better appreciation of Hobbes's writings, both philosophical and political.

Author : Silviya Lechner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030306939

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Hobbesian Internationalism by Silviya Lechner Pdf

This book sets out to re-examine the foundations of Thomas Hobbes’s political philosophy, and to develop a Hobbesian normative theory of international relations. Its central thesis is that two concepts – anarchy and authority – constitute the core of Hobbes's political philosophy whose aim is to justify the state. The Hobbesian state is a type of authority (juridical, public, coercive, and supreme) which emerges under conditions of anarchy ('state of nature'). A state-of-nature argument makes a difference because it justifies authority without appeal to moral obligation. The book shows that the closest analogue of a Hobbesian authority in international relations is Kant's confederation of free states, where states enjoy 'anarchical' (equal) freedom. At present, this crucial form of freedom is being threatened by economic processes of globalisation, and by the resurgence of private authority across state borders.

Author : D D Raphael,D. D. Raphael
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134339112

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Hobbes by D D Raphael,D. D. Raphael Pdf

Hobbes' writing surprises, shocks, amuses and, above all stimulates criticism both of himself and of our conventional wisdom. This book, which is both expository and critical, concentrates on Hobbes' s ethical and political theory, but also considers the effect of these on his metaphysics. Updated, with a new preface and critical bibliography, this book will be particularly useful as an introduction for undergraduates.

Author : Leo Strauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226776965

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The Political Philosophy of Hobbes by Leo Strauss Pdf

In this classic analysis, Leo Strauss pinpoints what is original and innovative in the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. He argues that Hobbes's ideas arose not from tradition or science but from his own deep knowledge and experience of human nature. Tracing the development of Hobbes's moral doctrine from his early writings to his major work The Leviathan, Strauss explains contradictions in the body of Hobbes's work and discovers startling connections between Hobbes and the thought of Plato, Thucydides, Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, and Hegel.

Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1541170407

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Leviathan (1651). by by Thomas Hobbes Pdf

Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil-commonly referred to as Leviathan-is a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and published in 1651 (revised Latin edition 1668). Its name derives from the biblical Leviathan. The work concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory.[5] Leviathan ranks as a classic western work on statecraft comparable to Machiavelli's The Prince. Written during the English Civil War (1642-1651), Leviathan argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Hobbes wrote that civil war and the brute situation of a state of nature ("the war of all against all") could only be avoided by strong, undivided government. Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 - 4 December 1679), in some older texts Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy. His 1651 book Leviathan established social contract theory, the foundation of most later Western political philosophy. Though on rational grounds a champion of absolutism for the sovereign, Hobbes also developed some of the fundamentals of European liberal thought: the right of the individual; the natural equality of all men; the artificial character of the political order (which led to the later distinction between civil society and the state); the view that all legitimate political power must be "representative" and based on the consent of the people; and a liberal interpretation of law which leaves people free to do whatever the law does not explicitly forbid. He was one of the founders of modern political philosophy and political science.His understanding of humans as being matter and motion, obeying the same physical laws as other matter and motion, remains influential; and his account of human nature as self-interested cooperation, and of political communities as being based upon a "social contract" remains one of the major topics of political philosophy. In addition to political philosophy, Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of other fields, including history, geometry, the physics of gases, theology, ethics, and general philosophy.

Author : G. Slomp
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780333984437

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Thomas Hobbes and the Political Philosophy of Glory by G. Slomp Pdf

Hobbes's philosophical discourse is deconstructed as the interplay of the drama of individual behaviour as perceived by rational agents and the detached analysis of conflict by a political geometer . The author solves some long-standing problems in Hobbesian political philosophy (e.g., the role of glory, Hobbes' pessimism) and shows the consistency of Hobbes' attempt to derive absolutism as the only stable political association. Although based on extensive textual analysis of Hobbes' works and correspondence, the book is an exercise in political philosophy that students will find iconoclastic and experts challenging.

Author : Leo Strauss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1073260497

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˜Theœ Political Philosophy of Hobbes by Leo Strauss Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Transportation, Automotive
ISBN : MINN:30000010652398

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ICC Register by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard E. Flathman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0742521494

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Thomas Hobbes by Richard E. Flathman Pdf

In his unconventional reading of the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, Flathman (political science, Johns Hopkins U.) suggests a liberal reading of Hobbes that is skeptical of ethical and metaphysical arguments that claim to know God or God's moral requirements. This leads to a view that the preferred political order is one in which disagreement and disturbance are to be privileged over an imposed homogeneity or uniformity. The foregoing suggests that we cannot do well without government, but we should chasten our expectations for government to provide the conditions necessary for the pursuit of our individual happiness. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Robin Douglass,Johan Olsthoorn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108421980

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Hobbes's On the Citizen by Robin Douglass,Johan Olsthoorn Pdf

The first book-length study in English of Thomas Hobbes's On the Citizen, containing twelve original essays by leading Hobbes scholars.