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Thomas Hobbes and the natural law /

Has Hobbesian moral and political theory been fundamentally misinterpreted by most of his readers? Since the criticism of John Bramhall, Hobbes has generally been regarded as advancing a moral and political theory that is antithetical to classical natural law theory. Kody Cooper challenges this trad...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Cooper, Kody W. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2018]
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • The foundations of Hobbes's natural law philosophy
  • Hobbesian moral and civil science : rereading the doctrine of severability
  • Hobbes and the good of life
  • The legal character of the laws of nature
  • The essence of Leviathan : the person of the commonwealth and the common good
  • Hobbes's natural law account of civil law
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index.