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Hobbes

edited by Robert Shaver

(The international library of critical essays in the history of philosophy)

Ashgate, Dartmouth, c1999

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Facsimile reprint of collected articles

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

A collection of papers in which Thomas Hobbes's detractors, supporters and some impartial observers examine his philosophical perspectives and support, attack and refine the received view of his work.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 The received view - moral theory: Thomas Hobbes - moral theorist, David Gauthier (1979)
  • right, reason and natural law in Hobbes's ethics, Gregory S. Kavka (1983)
  • Hobbes and ethical naturalism, Jean Hampton (1992). Part 2 The received view - the state of nature: Hobbes's war of all against all, Gregory S. Kavka (1983)
  • Scepticism and Hobbes's political philosophy, Marshall Missner (1983). Part 3 The received view - the sovereign: Hobbes's social contract, David Gauthier (1988)
  • Hobbes on artificial persons and collective actions, David Copp (1980)
  • Hobbes's "mortall God" - is there a fallacy in Hobbes's theory of sovereignty?, M.M. Goldsmith (1980)
  • reflections on Hobbes - recent work on his moral and political philosophy, Edwin Curley (1989-90). Part 4 The debate over the received view: Hobbes and psychological egoism, Bernard Gert (1967)
  • the ethical doctrine of Hobbes, A.E. Taylor (1938)
  • Hobbes's conception of morality, Howard Warrender (1962)
  • the ideological context of Hobbes's theory of political thought, Quentin Skinner (1966)
  • deviant uses of "obligation" in Hobbes "Leviathan", Mark C. Murphy (1994). Part 5 Method, rhetoric and law: Hobbes today, C.B. Macpherson, (1945)
  • against an orthodox interpretation of Hobbes, William Lyons, (1977)
  • Thomas Hobbes - rhetoric and the construction of morality, Quentin Skinner (1990)
  • Thomas Hobbes and the contractiarian theory of law, David Gauthier (1990)
  • was Hobbes a legal positivist, Mark C. Murphy (1995).

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  • NCID
    BA43228285
  • ISBN
    • 1840144246
  • LCCN
    99065263
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Aldershot
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvi, 503 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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