Leon Harold Craig

The Platonian Leviathan (eBook, PDF)

Platonian Leviathan

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Produktbeschreibung

Leon Harold Craig weaves together philosophy, political science, and literature to offer a radical re-interpretation of Hobbes's most famous work.

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Leon Harold Craig is a professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442686496
• Artikelnr.: 48945129

Autorenporträt

Leon Harold Craig is a professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Prelude xiii
A Melvillian Overture: Moby-Dick and Philosophy 3
Part One: The problematical Leviathan: Κακοφουια 25
1: Curiosity about Causes and the Problem of Religion 29
2: Reality and the Problem of Materialism 51
3: The Aristotelian Analysis of Cause 63
4: The Human Psyche and the Problem of Chance71
5: The Causes of a Commonwealth 79
6: Nature and the Problem of Teleology 84
7: The Essentials of Baconian Science 95
8: The Baconian Character of Hobbes' Political Project 106
9: Philosophy and the Problem of Determinism 114
10: Reason and the Problem of Revelation 133
11: Rationality and the Problem of Reason 145
12: Science and the Problem of Language 169
13: Honour and the Problem of Natural Law 198
14: Nobility and the Problem of Hedonism 220
15: Justice and the Problem of Regimes 246
16: Equity and the Problem of Egoism 267
A Conradian Intermezzo: Variations on the State of Nature 295
Part Two: The Paltonic Leviathan: cΑρμουια 327
17: The Crucial Paragraph: Platonic Intimations 329
18: The Heartless Introduction: Hobbes's Disposable Physiology 355
19: The Original State of Nature: Hobbes's Paleo-anthropology 369
20: The Ever-Present State of Nature: Greeks versus Barbarians 389
21: The Nature of Men: Equality as a Useful Lie 418
22: The Place of Philosophy: The Kingship of Hobbes 445
23: A Colossus of Irony: The Latent Platonism of Leviathan 479
A Melvillian Coda: Moby-Dick as Fourfold Allegory 499
Postlude 525
Notes 541
Bibliography 675
Index of Names 685