Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition

Name: Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition
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ISBN: 9780226062488

ISBN-10: 0226062481

ISBN-13: 9780226062488

Edition: 1993

Authors: Norberto. Bobbio, Daniela Gobetti

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Pre-eminent among European political philosophers, Norberto Bobbio has throughout his career turned to the political theory of Thomas Hobbes. Gathered here for the first time are the most important of his essays which together provide both a valuable introduction to Hobbes's thought and a fresh understanding of Hobbes's place in the theory of modern politics. Tracing Hobbes's work through De Cive and Leviathan, Bobbio identifies the philosopher's relation to the tradition of natural law. That Hobbes must now be understood in both this tradition as well as in the seemingly contradictory positivist tradition becomes clear for the first time in Bobbio's account. Bobbio also demonstrates that…

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List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/15/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 246
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.85" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English



Preface


Author's Note One - The Conceptual Model of Natural Law Theory



Elements of the Model



Variations on the Theme



The Alternative Method



Elements of the Alternative Model



The Conceptual Model of Natural Law Theory and Bourgeois Society



The Family and the State of Nature



The Family in the Conceptual Model of Natural Law Theory



the Bourgeois Family



A Proof "to the Contrary"



The End of the Model Two - Hobbes's Political Theory



Works



The Leading Idea



The Method



Artificial Man



The State of Nature



The War of All against All



The Dictates of Right Reason



The Covenant of Union



Sovereignty Is Irrevocable



Sovereignty Is Absolute



Civil Laws



Sovereignty Is Indivisible



Church and State



Hobbes and His Critics



Hobbes Interpreted Three


Introduction to De Cive


Appendix: Introduction to A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Law of England Four


Natural Law and Civil Law in the Political Philosophy of Hobbes Five - Hobbes and Natural Law Theory Six


Hobbes and Partial Societies Seven


By Way of Conclusion Appendix Considerations upon the Reputation, Loyalty, Manners and Religion of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury


A Brief History of Hobbesian Historiography


Three Books on Hobbes


Index