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Hobbes’s ‘Science of Natural Justice’

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  • © 1987

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  1. Craig Walton

    1. University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

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  2. Paul J. Johnson

    1. California State College, San Bernardino, USA

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Editor’s Introduction

    1. Editor’s Introduction

      • Craig Walton, Paul J. Johnson
      Pages 1-18

  3. Task of the ‘Science of Natural Justice’

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Philosophical Implications of Hobbes’s State of Nature

      • Jean Mathiot
      Pages 21-32

    3. Hobbes’s Theory of Natural and Social Sciences

      • Nikhil Bhattacharya
      Pages 33-55

    4. Obligations: Science and Philosophy in the Political Writings of Hobbes

      • Ross Rudolph
      Pages 57-68

  5. Natural Right and the State of Nature

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. Hobbes’s Conatus and the Roots of Character

      • Brian Stoffel
      Pages 123-138

    3. Hobbes and the Wolf-Man

      • Paul J. Johnson
      Pages 139-151

    4. Metamorphosis of the Idea of Right in Thomas Hobbes’s Philosophy

      • Simone Goyard-Fabre
      Pages 153-164

    5. The Peculiarity of Hobbes’s Concept of Natural Right

      • C. A. J. Coady
      Pages 165-180

    6. Thomas Hobbes: The Mediation of Right

      • Gary B. Herbert
      Pages 181-199

  6. Generating the Commonwealth

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201
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    2. Hobbes, Revolution and the Philosophy of History

      • Philip J. Kain
      Pages 203-218

    3. Thomas Hobbes from Behemoth to Leviathan

      • Herbert W. Schneider
      Pages 219-222
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Unlike many major figures in Western intellectual history, Hobbes has refused to become dated and quietly take his appointed place in the museum of historical scholarship. Whether by way of adoption or reaction, his ideas have remained vibrant forces in mankind's attempts to understand the problems and dilemmas of living peaceably with one another. As Richard Ashcraft said a few years ago: One of the standards by which the greatness of political theorists is measured, is their ability to evoke in us new insights into 'the human condition'. Only a few political writers have risen Dionysus-like from the titanic assaults of their critics to become even more formidable forces in the shaping of our destiny. One of these giants is surely the irascible l and irrepressible Thomas Hobbes . Given the power of Hobbes's thought, it is not then perhaps surprising to find that his writings have generated seemingly endless scholarly controversy and an astonishing range of imcompatible interpretations. Among other things, he has been interpreted as a theist and an atheist, as a utilitarian and a deontologist, a humanist and a scientist, as a traditional natural law theorist and a legal positivist, a contractualist and an absolutist - indeed, as Professor Morris notes in his contribution to the present volume, 'as almost any kind of philosophical 'ist except Platonist or Aristotelist'.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

    Craig Walton

  • California State College, San Bernardino, USA

    Paul J. Johnson

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