Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition

By: Norberto Bobbio, Daniela Gobetti (Translator)

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Paperback | 15 March 1993 | Edition Number 1

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Pre-eminent among European political philosophers, Norberto Bobbio has throughout his career turned to the political theory of Thomas Hobbes. Gathered here for the first time are the most important of his essays which together provide both a valuable introduction to Hobbes's thought and a fresh understanding of Hobbes's place in the theory of modern politics.

Tracing Hobbes's work through De Cive and Leviathan, Bobbio identifies the philosopher's relation to the tradition of natural law. That Hobbes must now be understood in both this tradition as well as in the seemingly contradictory positivist tradition becomes clear for the first time in Bobbio's account. Bobbio also demonstrates that Hobbes cannot be easily labelled "liberal" or "totalitarian"; in Bobbio's provocative analysis of Hobbes's justification of the state, Hobbes emerges as a true conservative.

Though his primary concern is to reconstruct the inner logic of Hobbes's thought, Bobbio is also attentive to the philosopher's biography and weaves into his analysis details of Hobbes's life and world-his exile in France, his relation with the Mersenne circle, his disputes with Anglican bishops, and accusations of heresy leveled against him. The result is a revealing, thoroughly new portrait of the first theorist of the modern state.

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Preface
Author's Note One - The Conceptual Model of Natural Law Theory
Elements of the Model
Variations on the Theme
The Alternative Method
Elements of the Alternative Model
The Conceptual Model of Natural Law Theory and Bourgeois Society
The Family and the State of Nature
The Family in the Conceptual Model of Natural Law Theory
the Bourgeois Family
A Proof "to the Contrary"
The End of the Model Two - Hobbes's Political Theory
Works
The Leading Idea
The Method
Artificial Man
The State of Nature
The War of All against All
The Dictates of Right Reason
The Covenant of Union
Sovereignty Is Irrevocable
Sovereignty Is Absolute
Civil Laws
Sovereignty Is Indivisible
Church and State
Hobbes and His Critics
Hobbes Interpreted Three
Introduction to De Cive
Appendix: Introduction to A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Law of England Four
Natural Law and Civil Law in the Political Philosophy of Hobbes Five - Hobbes and Natural Law Theory Six
Hobbes and Partial Societies Seven
By Way of Conclusion Appendix Considerations upon the Reputation, Loyalty, Manners and Religion of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury
A Brief History of Hobbesian Historiography
Three Books on Hobbes
Index
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