Thomas Hobbes

Hobbes: On the Citizen

Herausgeber: Tuck, Richard; Silverthorne, Michael

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Produktbeschreibung

De Cive (On the Citizen) is the first full exposition of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, the greatest English political philosopher of all time. Professors Tuck and Silverthorne have undertaken the first complete translation since 1651, a rendition long thought (in error) to be sanctioned by Hobbes himself.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780521432047
• ISBN-10: 0521432049
• Artikelnr.: 29424528

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Note on the translation
Key words
Principal events in Hobbes's life
Further reading
On the Citizen
Preface to the readers
1. On the state of man without civil society
2. On the natural law of contracts
3. On the other laws of nature
4. That the natural law is the divine law
5. On the causes and generation of a commonwealth
6. On the right of the Assembly of Man, who holds sovereign authority in the commonwealth
7. On the three kinds of commonwealth
democracy, aristocracy and monarchy
8. On the right of masters over slaves
9. On the rights of parents over children, and on the Patrimonial Kingdom
10. Comparison of the disadvantages of each of the three kinds of commonwealth
11. Passages and examples from holy scripture about the right of kingship, which appear to support our account
12. On the internal causes which tend to dissolve a commonwealth
13. On the duties of those who exercise sovereign power
14. On laws and sins
15. On the kingdom of God by nature
16. On the kingdom of God by the old agreement
17. On the kingdom of God by the new agreement
18. On what is necessary for entry into the Kingdom of heaven
Index.