The Bloomsbury Companion to Hobbes (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Lloyd, S. A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is widely held to be one of the most important thinkers in the history of philosophy. His contributions to ethics, political philosophy and psychology in particular were hugely innovative and he was regarded by his contemporaries as a major intellectual figure.

This comprehensive and accessible guide to Hobbes's life and work features 120 specially commissioned entries written by a team of leading experts in the field of seventeenth-century philosophy and political thought, covering every aspect of Hobbes's ideas. The Companion presents a comprehensive overview of the major themes and topics in Hobbes's work, in particular within the fields of language, political philosophy, moral philosophy and psychology, religion, law and science. It concludes with a thoroughly comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources. This is an essential reference tool for anyone working in the fields of seventeenth-century philosophy and political theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441141569
• Artikelnr.: 39483267

Autorenporträt

S.A. Lloyd is Professor of Philosophy, Law and Political Science at the University of Southern California, USA. She is the author of Ideals as Interests in Hobbes's Leviathan (CUP, 1992) and Morality in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes (CUP, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Life and Times: Childhood
Civil War
Education
Historical context
Influences
Patrons and friends
Works 2. Method: Definition
Experience
Experimentation
Game Theoretic Interpretations
Geometry
Logic
Observation
Reasoning
Resolutive
compositive method 3. Language: Absurdity
Definitions
Indexicals
Meaning
Names and Universals
Ratiocination
Rhetoric
Uses and abuses 4. Political Philosophy: Absolutism
Authorization and Alienation
Commonwealth
Duties of soverseigns and subjects
Equality
Laws of nature
Interest
Liberty
Monarchy and other forms of government
Obligation
Parental authority lies naturally in the mother
Private judgment
Power
Resistance and non
resistance
Rights
Social Contract
Sovereign
State of nature
Subjects
War and Peace 5. Moral Philosophy: Appetite and Aversion
Deliberation
Desire
Duty
Egoism
Equality
Fear
Folly
Good and evil
Human nature
Law of nature
Manners
Prudence
Obligation
Right of nature
Right and wrong
Self
preservation
Small morals, distinguished
Virtue
Wisdom 6. Religion: Anglicanism
Ecclesiology
Episcopacy
Erastianism
God
Hell
Heresy
Independency
Kingdom of Darkness
Miracles
Mohametans
Natural Religion
Presbyterianism
Puritanism
Revelation
Roman Catholicism
Salvation
Scripture
Superstition
Things Indifferent
Toleration
Trinity
Worship / 7. Law: Adjudication
Casuistry
Civil law
Divine law
Educative function of law
Equity
Good laws, defined
International law/ international relations
Judgment
Legislation
Natural law
Positive law
Revenge
Sin and Law
Crime and Punishment 8. Science and Philosophy: Body
Cause
Liberty
Materialism
Motion
Necessity and Contingency
Optics
Passions
Plenism
Reasoning, instrumental
Space and Time
Squaring the circle 9. Epistemology: Belief
History and historical knowledge
Knowledge
Opinion
Sensation and perception / 10. Lessons and Unsolved Mysteries: Hobbes's legacy
Hobbes and liberalism
Right to revolution
Does Hobbes's philosophy presuppose atheism?
What political forms can count as sovereign?
Is Hobbesian sovereignty obsolete in a world of global independence? Bibliography Index