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Behemoth, or, The Long Parliament
\"Behemoth is Thomas Hobbes's narrative of the English Civil Wars from the beginning of the Scottish revolution in 1637 to the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660. It is his only composition to address directly the history of the events which formed the context of his writings in Leviathan and elsewhere on sovereignty and the government of the Church. Although presented as an account of past events, it conceals a vigorous attack on the values of the religious and political establishment of Restoration England. This is the first fully scholarly edition of the work, and the first new edition of the text since 1889. Based on Hobbes's own presentation manuscript, it includes for the first time an accurate transcription of the passages which Hobbes had deleted in the text, and notes made by early readers.\"--BOOK JACKET.
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Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan , from 1651, is one of the first and most influential arguments towards social contract. Written in the midst of the English Civil War, it concerns the structure of government and society and argues for strong central governance and the rule of an absolute sovereign as the way to avoid civil war and chaos.
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Three-text edition of Thomas Hobbes's political theory : The elements of law, De cive, and Leviathan
\"It is well known that Thomas Hobbes wrote his political theory multiple times. 'This little MS. treatise [The Elements of Law: Natural & Politic] grew to be his Booke De Cive, and at last grew there to be the so formidable LEVIATHAN.' The first work circulated in manuscript in 1640; the second, Latin version was published in 1642 and in a second edition in 1647; Leviathan came out four years later, with a Latin edition following in 1668. In composing De Cive and Leviathan, Hobbes drew on the earlier text(s), re-using, expanding, re-organizing, and adding to material that had appeared previously\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity
Do human beings ever act freely, and if so what does freedom mean? Is everything that happens antecedently caused, and if so how is freedom possible? Is it right, even for God, to punish people for things that they cannot help doing? This volume presents the famous seventeenth-century controversy in which Thomas Hobbes and John Bramhall debate these questions and others. The complete texts of their initial contributions to the debate are included, together with selections from their subsequent replies to one another and from other works of Hobbes, in a collection that offers an illuminating commentary on issues still of concern to philosophers today. The volume is completed by a historical and philosophical introduction that explains the context in which the debate took place.
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Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War
Acclaimed writer and historian Noel Malcolm presents his sensational discovery of a new work by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): a propaganda pamphlet on behalf of the Habsburg side in the Thirty Years ‘ War, translated by Hobbes from a Latin original. Malcolm’s book explores a fascinating episode in seventeenth-century history, illuminating both the practice of early modern propaganda and the theory of “reason of state”.
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الدولة الشرطية : مقاربة درومولوجية لـ \لويثان\ هوبز
لم يكن كتاب \" لويثان\" تأسيسا لنظرية الدولة الحديثة وحسب بل كان كذلك تدشينا للأيقنة السياسية iconographie politique . ولما كانت الصورة بمعنى أيقونة قد ارتبطت قبل كل شيء بالتجربة البصرية، ولما كانت الصورة البصرية تبرز الموضوع / الشيء في وضعية بانورامية فتقدم المعنى كاملا على خلاف الصورة اللغوية التي تظل دوما حبيسة خطية الخطاب، ولما كان هوبز قد شدد في مختلف مؤلفاته على ضرورة أن تكون السلطة مرئية حتى تؤدي وظيفتها المتمثلة في بسط الأمن عبر فرض احترام العقد المبرم بين أفراد المجتمع فقد اختار هوبز تجسيد الدولة في صورة \" لويثان\" Léviathan وبرر ذلك بكون هذا \" اللويثان\" يتمتع بقامة وقوة أضخم من تلك التي يتمتع بها الإنسان الطبيعي ، ولذلك هو مؤهل لجمايته والدفاع عنه.
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اللفياثان : الأصول الطبيعية والسياسية لسلطة الدولة
وهو من أبرز الكتب المؤسسة لنظرية الفلسفة، حيث يبتكر لنا المؤلف أسطورة السلطة المطلقة ويوضح ركائز التقليد السياسي الحديث واللفياثان هو كائن بحري خرافي له رأس تنين وجسد أفعى ويرد ذكره مرات عدة في الكتاب المقدس، أما هوبز فيستعمله ليصور سلطة الحاكم أو الدولة التي يستبدل بها الناس ضمن عقد اجتماعي جديد سلطة الدين أو اللاهوت. وقسم هوبز الكتاب إلى أربعة أقسام، وتحدى فيه سلطة الكنيسة والدين البابوي، ويحدثنا في الجزء الأول عن الانسان، وعن أهمية اللغة والحكمة وكيفية التفكير معطيا أول التلميحات لنظرية المثالية، ثم ينتقل بعد ذلك للدولة المثالية، عبر ترميزها في اللفياثان، ويوضح لنا رؤيته بشكل جلي.
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