Hobbes Today

Hobbes Today

Author: S. A. Lloyd

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-12-17

Total Pages: 595

ISBN-13: 1139851330

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Hobbes Today: Insights for the 21st Century brings together an impressive group of political philosophers, legal theorists and political scientists to investigate the many ways in which the work of Thomas Hobbes, the famed seventeenth-century English philosopher, can illuminate the political and social problems we face today. Its essays demonstrate the contemporary relevance of Hobbes' political thought on such issues as justice, human rights, public reason, international warfare, punishment, fiscal policy and the design of positive law, among others. The volume's contributors include both Hobbes specialists and philosophers bringing their expertise to consideration of Hobbes' texts for the first time. This volume will stimulate renewed interest in Hobbes studies among a new generation of thinkers.


Exploring Calvin and Hobbes

Exploring Calvin and Hobbes

Author: Bill Watterson

Publisher:

Published: 2015-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781449460365

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"In cooperation with the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, The Ohio State University Libraries."


Hobbes

Hobbes

Author: D D Raphael

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 1134339127

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Hobbes' writing surprises, shocks, amuses and, above all stimulates criticism both of himself and of our conventional wisdom. This book, which is both expository and critical, concentrates on Hobbes' s ethical and political theory, but also considers the effect of these on his metaphysics. Updated, with a new preface and critical bibliography, this book will be particularly useful as an introduction for undergraduates.


Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes

Author: Aaron Rosenberg

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2005-12-15

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9781404204195

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Highlights the life and accomplishments of English philosopher, scholar, mathematician, and teacher Thomas Hobbes.


The Revenge of the Baby-Sat

The Revenge of the Baby-Sat

Author: Bill Watterson

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780836218664

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The praise and popularity of Calvin and Hobbes continue to escalate as the hottest comic strip around reaches its fifth birthday. With keen insight, Bill Watterson depicts life through the eyes of a child, and the limits of our imaginations are challenged as we accompany Calvin and Hobbes while they stir up trouble, travel through time, transmogrify themselves--and just have fun in everything they do.


Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes

Author: R.E.R. Bunce

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2013-02-14

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1623568722

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In this volume, Dr Bunce (University of Cambridge) introduces Hobbes' ambitious philosophical project to discover the principles that govern the social world. If Hobbes' immodest assessment that he successfully attained this goal may be disputed, Bunce nevertheless captures the extraordinary enduring value of Hobbes' work for the contemporary reader. Thomas Hobbes's name and the title of his most famous work, Leviathan, have come to be synonymous with the idea that the natural state of humankind is 'nasty, brutish, and short' and only the intervention of a munificent overlord may spare men and women from this unenviable fate by imposing order where there would otherwise be chaos. The problem that Hobbes formulated resonates through the centuries as the enduring dilemma of political organisation and social cooperation. Indeed it can be seen today in fields as diverse as theoretical game theory and international relations.


Leviathan

Leviathan

Author: Thomas Hobbes

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-10-03

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 048612214X

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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.


Hobbes

Hobbes

Author: A.P. Martinich

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1135180792

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Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was the first great English philosopher and one of the most important theorists of human nature and politics in the history of Western thought. This superlative introduction presents Hobbes' main doctrines and arguments, covering all of Hobbes' philosophy. A.P. Martinich begins with a helpful overview of Hobbes' life and work, setting his ideas against the political and scientific background of seventeenth-century England. He then introduces and assesses, in clear chapters, Hobbes' contributions to fundamental areas of philosophy: epistemology and metaphysics, in particular Hobbes' materialism and determinism and his relation to Descartes ethics and political philosophy, concentrating on Hobbes' most famous work, Leviathan, and the theory of the social contract it advances philosophy of science, logic and language, considering Hobbes' theory of nominalism and his writing on rhetoric and the uses of language; religion, examining Hobbes' analyses of revelation, prophets and miracles. The final chapter considers the legacy of Hobbes' thought and his influence on contemporary philosophy.


Author: S. A. Lloyd

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-08-31

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 052116978X

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This volume demonstrates the enduring relevance of the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes for the political and social problems we face today.