Format:
1 online resource (250 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781441170231
Series Statement:
Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers Ser.
Content:
This first volume in the Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinker series focuses on Thomas Hobbes.
Content:
Cover-Page -- Half Title -- Series Introduction -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Hobbes's Life -- Early Life -- Employment as a Humanist -- Hobbes and the New Science -- Philosopher in Exile -- Return to England -- Last Years -- Conclusion: Life and Philosophy -- 2 Hobbes's Civil Philosophy -- Introduction -- The Nature of Hobbes's Political Thought -- Hobbes's Works -- Human Nature: Reason, Knowledge, Imagination, and Passion -- Man, Born Unfit for Society -- The Condition of Mere Nature -- The Laws of Nature -- Persons, Authors, Representation, and the State -- The Creation of the State through Mutual Covenants -- Types of Sovereignty -- The Rights and Duties of the Sovereign -- Liberty under the Sovereign -- The Life of the Commonwealth -- The Fool -- The Death of the Commonwealth -- Conclusion: The Science of Natural Justice -- 3 Reception and Interpretation -- Introduction -- Hobbism and Atheism -- Hobbes's Disciples -- Human Nature and the State of Nature -- Social Contract and the State -- Obligation and Law -- Hobbes as a Theorist of Bourgeois Society -- Hobbes and the Prisoner's Dilemma -- Hobbes the Skeptic -- Hobbes and Rhetoric -- Conclusion: Understanding Hobbes -- 4 Hobbes Today -- New Leviathan and Totalitarianism -- Back to Nature -- Hobbes and Contemporary Conservatism -- Liberal before Liberalism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Suggested Further Reading -- Hobbes's Life -- Hobbes's Works -- Natural Philosophy, Mathematics, and Language -- Theology -- Ethics and Political Thought -- Reception -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441101167
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781441101167
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1580838
