The Elements of Law Natural and Politic. Part I: Human Nature; Part II: De Corpore Politico: with Three Lives: Pt. 1 - Brossura

Hobbes, Thomas

Brossura

ISBN 10: 019283682X ISBN 13: 9780192836823

Casa editrice: Oxford Paperbacks, 1999

Riassunto

`the state of men without civil society (which state we may properly call the state of nature) is nothing else but a mere war of all against all.' Thomas Hobbes was the first great philosopher to write in English. His account of the human condition, first developed in The Elements of Law (1640), which comprises Human Nature and De Corpore Politico, is a direct product of the intellectural and political strife of the seventeenth century. It is also a remarkably penetrating look at human nature, and a permanently relevant analysis of the fears of self-seeking that result in the war of `each against every man'. In The Elements of Law Hobbes memorably sets out both the main lines of his general philosophy, later augmented in De Corpore (1655), and the moral and political philosophy later made famous in Leviathan (1651). Copies of Human Nature and De Corpore Politico, until 1889 printed as separate works, are rare antiques or scarcely less rare scholarly texts; this is the first complete popular edition. It is here supplemented by chapters from De Corpore and Three Lives, two from Hobbes's original Latin. These have never before been published together in English.

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Informazioni sull?autore

J. C. A. Gaskin is a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. He lives in Dublin and near Morpeth, Northumberland.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Oxford Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 019283682X
• ISBN 13: 9780192836823
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Redattore: Gaskin J. C. A.
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