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Hobbes concludes Part One by articulating an additional seventeen laws of nature that make the performance of the first two possible and by explaining what it would mean for a sovereign to represent the people even when they disagree with the sovereign.
Italiano: Leviathan or, the matter, forme and power of a commonwealth, ecclesiasticall and civill / Thomas Hobbes ; the text edited by A. R. Waller. - Cambridge : at The University Press, 1904. - Cambridge : at The University Press, 1904.
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Original – Frontispiece of Leviathan by Abraham Bosse, with input from Hobbes Reason High resolution, clear photographic reproduction of the iconic original cover for Hobbes' Leviathan. It is encylopedic inhow it well llustrates how Hobbes describes the state; an irresistible giant force aided by its bureaucrats that enforces order over society
Hobbes’s moral philosophy is the fundamental starting point from which his political philosophy is developed. This moral philosophy outlines a general conceptual framework on human nature which is rigorously developed in The Elements of Law, De Cive and Leviathan. [5]
Against the parliamentarians, Hobbes maintained that sovereignty was absolute and the head could certainly not be "of lesse power" than the body of the people; against the royal absolutists, however, he developed the idea of a social contract, emphasising that the body politic—Leviathan, the "mortal god"—was fictional and artificial rather ...
Thomas Hobbes (/ h ɒ b z / HOBZ; 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher, best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. [4] He is considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. [5] [6]
Bellum omnium contra omnes, a Latin phrase meaning "the war of all against all", is the description that Thomas Hobbes gives to human existence in the state-of-nature thought experiment that he conducts in De Cive (1642) and Leviathan (1651).