UID:
almafu_9960119217002883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 299 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-316-04479-3
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0-511-62506-5
Content:
This major study of Hobbes' political philosophy draws on recent developments in game and decision theory to explore whether the thrust of the argument in Leviathan, that it is in the interests of the people to create a ruler with absolute power, can be shown to be cogent. Professor Hampton has written a book of vital importance to political philosophers, political and social scientists, and intellectual historians.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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"Of Man": the foundation of Hobbes's political argument --
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The premisses of Hobbes's argument --
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Hobbes's radical individualism --
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Hobbes's materialist psychology --
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Human equality --
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Hobbes's ethics --
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What is the cause of conflict in the state of nature? --
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The rationality account of conflict --
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The passions account of conflict --
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Evaluating the two accounts --
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Problems with the passions account of conflict --
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Problems with the rationality account of conflict --
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The shortsightedness account of conflict and the laws of nature --
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Conflict arising because of shortsighted pursuit of self-preservation --
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Review of the shortsightedness account of conflict --
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The laws of nature --
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Hobbes's science of moral philosophy reexamined --
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God and the laws of nature --
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The argument for absolute sovereignty --
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Hobbes's regress argument for absolute sovereignty --
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Can absolute sovereignty be invested in all or some of the people? --
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Hobbes's legal positivism --
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The historical context of the regress argument --
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Authorizing the sovereign --
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Authorization --
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The textual evidence --
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The regress argument and authorization --
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Authorization and Hobbes's nominalism --
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The permanence and continuity of sovereign rule --
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Hobbes's social contract --
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Problems with Hobbes's social contract --
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Agreements of self-interest --
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Instituting the sovereign, stage 1 --
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Instituting the sovereign, stage 2: the leadership-selection problem --
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Solving battle-of-the-sexes problems --
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Voting --
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Creating a commonwealth by acquisition.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-36827-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-26184-8
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511625060
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