Hobbes's On the Citizen

Hobbes's On the Citizen: a Critical Guide

by Douglass, Robin

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The first book-length study in English of Thomas Hobbes's On the Citizen, containing twelve original essays by leading Hobbes scholars.

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  • Full title :Hobbes's On the Citizen : a Critical Guide.

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The first book-length study in English of Thomas Hobbes's On the Citizen, containing twelve original essays by leading Hobbes scholars.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2019.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (266 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1108390072, 9781108390071
  • oclc:on1129183903
  • LC Classification:JC153
  • Dewey Decimal:320.1

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Excavating On the Citizen -- The Relationship between On the Citizen and The Elements of Law -- Honing and Improving Arguments -- The State of Nature -- The Political Covenant -- Original Democracy -- Formal and Substantive Scientific Inquiry -- Applying the ''Elements of Philosophy'' Plan: Politics and Religion -- Chapter 2 Hobbes and Aristotle on the Foundation of Political Science

Political Animals and the ''Foundation of Civil Doctrine'' -- The Attack on Political Friendship -- On Being Born Fit for Society -- Political Animals Revisited -- Chapter 3 All the Mind's Pleasure: Glory, Self-Admiration, and Moral Motivation in On the Citizen and Leviathan -- The Bases of Self-Admiration -- Self-Admiration's Role in On the Citizen and Leviathan -- The Psychology of Self-Admiration -- Moral Motivation and the Desire for Self-Admiration -- Managing Ambition and the Desire for Self-Admiration

Chapter 4 The Right of Nature and Political Disobedience: Hobbes's Puzzling Thought Experiment -- Moment O…

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Subjects

De cive (Hobbes, Thomas) Hobbes, Thomas

Writers

Douglass, Robin Olsthoorn, Johan

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