Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition

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Paperback | 5 December 1988

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This major study of Hobbes's political philosophy draws on recent developments in game and decision theory to explore whether the thrust of the argument in Leviathan, that it is in the interests of the people to create a ruler with absolute power, can be shown to be cogent. Professor Hampton has written a book of vital importance to political philosophers, political and social scientists, and intellectual historians.

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'Hampton's ingenious argument ... is the best that has yet been advanced to explain how Hobbesian persons could institute a sovereign.' David Gauthier, Philosophy and Public Affairs

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
A note on texts and references	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
"Of Man": the foundation of Hobbes's political argument	p. 5
The premisses of Hobbes's argument	p. 5
Hobbes's radical individualism	p. 6
Hobbes's materialist psychology	p. 11
Human equality	p. 24
Hobbes's ethics	p. 27
What is the cause of conflict in the state of nature?	p. 58
The rationality account of conflict	p. 58
The passions account of conflict	p. 63
Evaluating the two accounts	p. 68
Problems with the passions account of conflict	p. 69
Problems with the rationality account of conflict	p. 74
Summary	p. 79
The shortsightedness account of conflict and the laws of nature	p. 80
Conflict arising because of shortsighted pursuit of self-preservation	p. 80
Review of the shortsightedness account of conflict	p. 88
The laws of nature	p. 89
Hobbes's science of moral philosophy reexamined	p. 92
God and the laws of nature	p. 94
The argument for absolute sovereignty	p. 97
Hobbes's regress argument for absolute sovereignty	p. 98
Can absolute sovereignty be invested in all or some of the people?	p. 105
Hobbes's legal positivism	p. 107
The historical context of the regress argument	p. 110
Authorizing the sovereign	p. 114
Authorization	p. 114
The textual evidence	p. 117
The regress argument and authorization	p. 122
Authorization and Hobbes's nominalism	p. 128
The permanence and continuity of sovereign rule	p. 129
Hobbes's social contract	p. 132
Problems with Hobbes's social contract	p. 132
Agreements of self-interest	p. 138
Instituting the sovereign, stage 1	p. 147
Instituting the sovereign, stage 2: the leadership-selection problem	p. 150
Solving battle-of-the-sexes problems	p. 154
Voting	p. 161
Creating a commonwealth by acquisition	p. 166
Instituting the sovereign, stage 3: the problem of empowerment	p. 173
Empowerment: the solution	p. 176
Review of the argument in this chapter	p. 186
The failure of Hobbes's social contract argument	p. 189
Would Hobbesian people in the state of nature desire to institute a sovereign?	p. 190
Leviathan shown to be a "rebel's catechism"	p. 197
Can Hobbes's argument be salvaged?	p. 208
The first modified argument: authorization as conversion	p. 208
Hobbes's second modified argument: the fallback position	p. 220
The "agency" social agreement in the fallback position	p. 224
The fallback position in the text	p. 239
Evaluating the fallback position: how Lockean is it?	p. 247
How the traditional social contract argument works	p. 256
Can a consistent and plausible alienation social contract theory be constucted?	p. 256
The justificational and explanatory force of agency social contract arguments	p. 266
Dissolving the paradox of being governed	p. 279
Bibliography	p. 285
Index	p. 293
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