The Elements of law, natural and politic : part I, Human nature, part II, De Corpore politico ; with Three lives

Author(s)

• Hobbes, Thomas
• Gaskin, J. C. A. (John Charles Addison)

Bibliographic Information

The Elements of law, natural and politic : part I, Human nature, part II, De Corpore politico ; with Three lives

Thomas Hobbes ; edited with an introduction by J.C.A. Gaskin

（The world's classics）

Oxford University Press, 1994

• : pbk

Other Title

Human nature and De Corpore politico

Note

This work was originally published in 1650 as two separate books, Human nature, and De Corpore politico. Human nature contained the first 13 chapters, De Corpore politico contained chapters 14 thru 19 of the first work, and chapters 20 thru 29. The present edition considers chapters 1 thru 19 as part 1, Human nature, and chapters 20 thru 29 as part 2, De Corpore politico

Included in this work are chapters from Hobbes' De Corpore, translations of His Verse life, and Prose life, and an abstract of John Aubrey's Brief life

Bibliography: p. [li]-lii

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Thomas Hobbes was the first great philosopher to write in English. His account of the human condition, first developed in "The Elements of Law" (1640) comprises "Human Nature" and "De Corpore Politico", is a direct product of the intellectual and political strife of the 17th century. It is also a remarkably penetrating look at human nature, and a permanently relevant analysis of the fears and self-seeking that result in the war of "each against every man". In "The Elements of Law" Hobbes memorably sets out both the main lines of his general philosophy, later augmented in "De Corpore" (1655), and the moral and political philosophy later made famous in "Leviathan" (1651). Copies of "Human Nature" and "De Corpore Politico", until 1889 printed as seperate works, are rare antiques or scarcely less rare scholarly texts - this is the first complete popular edition. It is here supplemented by chapters from "De Corpore" and "Three Lives", two texts from Hobbes's original Latin. These have never before been published together in English. This volume should be of interest to undergraduate students of philosophy, politics and political history, especially relevant to the 17th century. J.C.A. Gaskin is the editor of "Dialogue Concerning Natural Religion" and "The Natural History of Religion".

Table of Contents

• Introduction - "The Elements of Law" compared with the contents of Hobbes's other works. Part 1 "Three Lives": "The Brief Life" - an abstract of Aubrey's notes
• "The Prose Life" - a new translation
• "The Verse Life" - a contemporary translation. Part 2 "The Elements of Law Natural and Politic": (Hobbes's chapters and table of contents) Part I - "Human Nature"
• Part II - "De Corpore Politico". Appendix:"De Corpore" - chapters I, VI and XXV

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Details

• NCID: BA22931385
• ISBN:
  • 0192831216
• LCCN: 93038333
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: englat
• Place of Publication: Oxford ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: lv, 284 p.
• Size: 19 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC8 : 133.2
  • LCC : JC153
  • DC20 : 171/.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Natural law
  • LCSH : Political science -- Early works to 1800
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00232564