Thomas Hobbes And Political Theory

Author : Mary G. Dietz
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1990-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780700605194

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Thomas Hobbes and Political Theory by Mary G. Dietz Pdf

This volume explores, from a variety of perspectives, the political theory of the man who is arguably the greatest English political thinker. It is the first substantial collection of new, critical essays on Thomas Hobbes by leading scholars in over a decade. Hobbes’s writings stirred debate in his own lifetime, for two centuries thereafter, and continue to do so in ours. They emerged in a period of intense political turmoil—a time of civil war and regicide, of puritanical rule and royal restoration. “They were motivated,” Dietz argues, “by concrete political problems and a practical concern, namely, to secure political order, absolute sovereignty, and civil peace.” The contributors emphasize and answer a series of expressly political questions that, to date, have not been fully addressed in the Hobbes literature. They contend that Hobbes’s writings are not mere static artifacts of a particular historical milieu, but rather rich sources of a variety of interpretations and criticisms that spur discussion and debate in their turn.

Author : Deborah Baumgold
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1988-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521341256

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Hobbes's Political Theory by Deborah Baumgold Pdf

Author : Mary G. Dietz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015017968481

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Thomas Hobbes and Political Theory by Mary G. Dietz Pdf

The eight essays in this volume celebrated the 400th birthday of the English political thinker - Thomas Hobbes.

Author : Zarka Yves Charles Zarka
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226229843

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Behemoth or The Long Parliament by Thomas Hobbes Pdf

Behemoth, or The Long Parliament is essential to any reader interested in the historical context of the thought of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). In De Cive (1642) and Leviathan (1651), the great political philosopher had developed an analytical framework for discussing sedition, rebellion, and the breakdown of authority. Behemoth, completed around 1668 and not published until after Hobbe's death, represents the systematic application of this framework to the English Civil War. In his insightful and substantial Introduction, Stephen Holmes examines the major themes and implications of Behemoth in Hobbes's system of thought. Holmes notes that a fresh consideration of Behemoth dispels persistent misreadings of Hobbes, including the idea that man is motivated solely by a desire for self-preservation. Behemoth, which is cast as a series of dialogues between a teacher and his pupil, locates the principal cause of the Civil War less in economic interests than in the stubborn irrationality of key actors. It also shows more vividly than any of Hobbe's other works the importance of religion in his theories of human nature and behavior.

Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Transportation, Automotive
ISBN : MINN:30000010652398

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ICC Register by Anonim Pdf

Author : S. A. Lloyd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
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 : Geoffrey M. Vaughan
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 073912093X

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Behemoth Teaches Leviathan by Geoffrey M. Vaughan Pdf

Did Hobbes's political philosophy have practical intentions? There exists no "Hobbist" school of thought; no new political order was inspired by Hobbesian precepts. Yet in Behemoth Teaches Leviathan Geoffrey M. Vaughan revisits Behemoth to reveal hitherto unexplored pedagogic purpose to Hobbes's political philosophy. The work demonstrates Hobbes's firm commitment to government and his attempts to create a system of political education to underpin his commitment to sovereignty. Vaughan explore Hobbes's political education in detail and in an epilogue considers the resurgence of political education in contemporary liberal theory. He discovers that contemporary political education has far more in common with Hobbes's system than it does with early liberalism.

Author : D D Raphael,D. D. Raphael
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : THOMAS. HOBBES
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033261211

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DE CIVE by THOMAS. HOBBES Pdf

Author : Deborah Baumgold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108132787

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Three-Text Edition of Thomas Hobbes's Political Theory by Deborah Baumgold Pdf

An exciting English-language edition which for the first time presents Thomas Hobbes's masterpiece Leviathan alongside two earlier works, The Elements of Law and De Cive. By arranging the three texts side by side, Baumgold offers readers an enhanced understanding of Hobbes's political theory and addresses an important need within Hobbes scholarship. The parallel presentation highlights substantive connections between the texts and makes it easy to trace the development of Hobbes's thinking. Readers can follow developments both at the 'micro' level of specific arguments and at the 'macro' level of the overall scope and organization of the theory. The volume also includes parallel presentations of Hobbes's chapter outlines, which serve as a key to the texts and are collected in a précis appendix.

Author : Thomas A. SpragensJr.
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813186580

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The Politics of Motion by Thomas A. SpragensJr. Pdf

Two principal issues interact and overlap in this penetrating analysis: the relationship between Hobbes' natural philosophy and his civil philosophy, and the relationship between Hobbes' thought and the Aristotelian world view that constituted the philosophical orthodoxy he rejected. On the first point Thomas A. Spragens Jr. argues that Hobbes' political ideas were in fact significantly influenced by his cosmological perceptions, although they were not, and could not have been, completely derived from that source. On the second, the author demonstrates that Hobbes undertook a highly systematic transformation of Aristotelian cosmology: he borrowed the form of the Aristotelian cosmology, but radically refashioned its substance to accommodate the discoveries of contemporaries such as Galileo.

Author : Preston T. King
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 0415080819

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Thomas Hobbes by Preston T. King Pdf

This collection brings together the rich periodical literature on one of the greatest English philosophers. These definitive essays range across Hobbes' work in ethics, metaphysics, law, politics, history, science and religion.

Author : Nancy J. Hirschmann,Joanne H. Wright
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271061351

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Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes by Nancy J. Hirschmann,Joanne H. Wright Pdf

Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes features the work of feminist scholars who are centrally engaged with Hobbes’s ideas and texts and who view Hobbes as an important touchstone in modern political thought. Bringing together scholars from the disciplines of philosophy, history, political theory, and English literature who embrace diverse theoretical and philosophical approaches and a range of feminist perspectives, this interdisciplinary collection aims to appeal to an audience of Hobbes scholars and nonspecialists alike. As a theorist whose trademark is a compelling argument for absolute sovereignty, Hobbes may seem initially to have little to offer twenty-first-century feminist thought. Yet, as the contributors to this collection demonstrate, Hobbesian political thought provides fertile ground for feminist inquiry. Indeed, in engaging Hobbes, feminist theory engages with what is perhaps the clearest and most influential articulation of the foundational concepts and ideas associated with modernity: freedom, equality, human nature, authority, consent, coercion, political obligation, and citizenship. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Joanne Boucher, Karen Detlefsen, Karen Green, Wendy Gunther-Canada, Jane S. Jaquette, S. A. Lloyd, Su Fang Ng, Carole Pateman, Gordon Schochet, Quentin Skinner, and Susanne Sreedhar.