Hobbes And America
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Hobbes And America
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Author : Frank M. Coleman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Hobbes And America written by Frank M. Coleman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Philosophy categories.
On Hobbes
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Author : Alan Ryan
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2015-11-03
On Hobbes written by Alan Ryan and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-03 with Philosophy categories.
A guiding light to America’s Founding Fathers, Hobbes created the first truly modern political philosophy. In Leviathan, one of the greatest works of political philosophy of all time, English philosopher Thomas Hobbes created the idea of a “social contract” and set out to explicate a doctrine for the foundation of states and legitimate forms of government. In On Hobbes, Alan Ryan explains how Hobbes created the secular conception of the state and politics in one of the first truly modern works of political philosophy. Inverting Aristotle’s view of politics, Hobbes argued that humans organize themselves into political communities not out of any sociable impulse to pursue the good life in common, but rather out of an unsociable fear of one another and for the sake of avoiding the greatest evil of all: death. Ryan explicates how modern notions of individual rights, sovereignty, representative government, and almost all liberal political theory find their foundation in the work of Hobbes. Excerpted here are: Leviathan, The Elements of Law.
Western Origins Leviathan Two Treatises And The Constitution Of Pennsylvania
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Author : John Locke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-11
Western Origins Leviathan Two Treatises And The Constitution Of Pennsylvania written by John Locke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11 with categories.
This collection includes the ORIGINAL and FIRST EDITION manuscripts of Thomas Hobbes: The Leviathan 1661, John Locke: Two Treatises of Government and the Constitution of Pennsylvania from 1776. - Western Origins: Leviathan, Two Treatises and the Constitution of Pennsylvania Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and the Founding Fathers of the United States of America - INTRODUCTION NATURE (the art whereby God hath made and governs the world) is by the art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an artificial animal. For seeing life is but a motion of limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within, why may we not say that all automata (engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life? For what is the heart, but a spring; and the nerves, but so many strings; and the joints, but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body, such as was intended by the Artificer? Art goes yet further, imitating that rational and most excellent work of Nature, man. For by art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMONWEALTH, or STATE (in Latin, CIVITAS), which is but an artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than the natural, for whose protection and defence it was intended; and in which the sovereignty is an artificial soul, as giving life and motion to the whole body; the magistrates and other officers of judicature and execution, artificial joints; reward and punishment (by which fastened to the seat of the sovereignty, every joint and member is moved to perform his duty) are the nerves, that do the same in the body natural; the wealth and riches of all the particular members are the strength; salus populi (the people's safety) its business; counsellors, by whom all things needful for it to know are suggested unto it, are the memory; equity and laws, an artificial reason and will; concord, health; sedition, sickness; and civil war, death. Lastly, the pacts and covenants, by which the parts of this body politic were at first made, set together, and united, resemble that fiat, or the Let us make man, pronounced by God in the Creation. To describe the nature of this artificial man, I will consider * First, the matter thereof, and the artificer; both which is man. * Secondly, how, and by what covenants it is made; what are the rights and just power or authority of a sovereign; and what it is that preserveth and dissolveth it...
On Hobbes Escaping The War Of All Against All Liveright Classics
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Author : Alan Ryan
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2015-11-16
On Hobbes Escaping The War Of All Against All Liveright Classics written by Alan Ryan and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-16 with Philosophy categories.
A guiding light to America’s Founding Fathers, Hobbes created the first truly modern political philosophy. In Leviathan, one of the greatest works of political philosophy of all time, English philosopher Thomas Hobbes created the idea of a “social contract” and set out to explicate a doctrine for the foundation of states and legitimate forms of government. In On Hobbes, Alan Ryan explains how Hobbes created the secular conception of the state and politics in one of the first truly modern works of political philosophy. Inverting Aristotle’s view of politics, Hobbes argued that humans organize themselves into political communities not out of any sociable impulse to pursue the good life in common, but rather out of an unsociable fear of one another and for the sake of avoiding the greatest evil of all: death. Ryan explicates how modern notions of individual rights, sovereignty, representative government, and almost all liberal political theory find their foundation in the work of Hobbes. Excerpted here are: Leviathan, The Elements of Law.
Leviathan
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Author : Thomas Hobbes
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-10-03
Leviathan written by Thomas Hobbes and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-03 with Philosophy categories.
Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures were in flux and open to interpretation, Leviathan played an essential role in the development of the modern world.
Freedom As Motion
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Author : Leslie Dale Feldman
language : en
Publisher: University Press of America
Release Date : 2001
Freedom As Motion written by Leslie Dale Feldman and has been published by University Press of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Philosophy categories.
In Freedom as Motion, Leslie Dale Feldman explores the American concepts of freedom, individualism, and liberal culture and how they are closely tied to Thomas Hobbes' notion of free movement. In chapter XXI of Leviathan, Hobbes describes freedom as 'the absence of opposition' to motion. This idea of freedom as motion has flourished in America where the emphasis on individualism is greatest. Feldman explores the evolution of this concept through Western and American history, and also the theoretical connection that exists in reality at the level of simple daily life. Hobbes' theory of freedom as motion becomes the central metaphor of liberalism and forms the basis for the American conception of freedom today. This book will prove thought-provoking to students of Western and American Political Theory, as well as students of American History and Culture.
Images Of Anarchy
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Author : Ioannis D. Evrigenis
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
Images Of Anarchy written by Ioannis D. Evrigenis and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with Law categories.
Hobbes's concept of the natural condition of mankind became an inescapable point of reference for subsequent political thought, shaping the theories of emulators and critics alike, and has had a profound impact on our understanding of human nature, anarchy, and international relations. Yet, despite Hobbes's insistence on precision, the state of nature is an elusive concept. Has it ever existed and, if so, for whom? Hobbes offered several answers to these questions, which taken together reveal a consistent strategy aimed at providing his readers with a possible, probable, and memorable account of the consequences of disobedience. This book examines the development of this powerful image throughout Hobbes's works, and traces its origins in his sources of inspiration. The resulting trajectory of the state of nature illuminates the ways in which Hobbes employed a rhetoric of science and a science of rhetoric in his relentless pursuit of peace.
The English Works Of Thomas Hobbes Of Malmesbury Volume Ii
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Author : Thomas Hobbes
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2022-10-27
The English Works Of Thomas Hobbes Of Malmesbury Volume Ii written by Thomas Hobbes and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-27 with Literary Collections categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Making Religion Safe For Democracy
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Author : J. Judd Owen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015
Making Religion Safe For Democracy written by J. Judd Owen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
This book examines a unified reinterpretation of Christianity by Hobbes, Locke, and Jefferson, and compares that to de Tocqueville's analysis of changes.
Leviathan
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Author : Thomas Hobbes
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-03-17
Leviathan written by Thomas Hobbes and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-17 with categories.
Thomas Hobbes is one of the earliest political philosophers to propose the foundational principles on which the United States of America is founded. He was a philosopher, theologian and analyst, who changed the thinking of past social structures by daring to invert the power structures of government. He proposed that the power to govern is given to the people and that it is delegated to those who serve in government on a limited basis. He proposed that government should be limited and that there should be a separation of powers to keep the seduction of power from accumulating power over the people rather than from the people in a defined and limited form. Hobbes was ahead of his time and was the chief proponent of this form of political philosophy. He obviously influenced many who came after, notably John Locke, Alexis de Tocqueville, Frederic Bastiat, and the writers of the Constitution of the United States of America, Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton and so many others. The contributions of Hobbes are invaluable in understanding the American Experiment and in the breaking away from the authoritarian power bases of most nations in history past. It is in this single concept of the reversal of the flow of political power, from what was usual prior to our nation's founding of a top/down flow of power, to our new found social formation of the flow of power from the bottom up. It is this form and concept that is the basis of American Exceptionalism. We are not exceptional because we are better, smarter or especially blessed by God. We are exceptional because we have understood the principle of the flow of the power of life as coming from God the Creator to the people and then being delegated to government. This make a pivotal difference in the form and outcome of government. Please enjoy our presentation of Thomas Hobbes at his best.