Leviathan

The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes

Hobbesian Moral and Political Theory

Natural Law, Religion, and Rights: An Exploration of the Relationship Between Natural Law and Natural Rights, With Special Emphasis on the Teachings of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke

Behemoth or The Long Parliament

Hobbes

De Cive: The English Version

From ForCarl
Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679) was an English philosopher, whose famous 1651 book, Leviathan set the agenda for nearly all subsequent Western polictical philosophy.
Although Hobbes is today best remembered for his work on polictical philosophy, he contributed to a diverse array of fields, including history, geometry, theology, ethics, general philosophy and what would now be called political science. Additionally, Hobbes's account of human nature as self-interested cooperation has proved to be an enduring theory in the field of philosophical anthropology. Hobbes, like Spinoza, regarded religion as a system of law rather than as a system of truth
Hobbes has been famous for centuries as an atheist, and was described as such in the seventeenth century. Nonetheless, his public posture was quite different, and this reminds us that the critique of religion began as a management problem with many levels, not as an attempt to determine what philosophers of the first rank should privately believe. In the context of the early seventeenth century Hobbes can be read as a political Calvinist who unquestionably supported a Christian Commonwealth, provided it was regulated by the state. Although he regarded popular religion as superstition based on fear, he was happy to acknowledge the existence of God, provided God was interpreted as a corporeal spirit (Hobbes 1839-45, vol iv, 306 ). Similarly, Hobbes admitted that revelation had occurred, provided this revelation was read down to agree with reason. To foster this process Hobbes subjected the Scriptures to rational criticism and insisted on the need for naturalist explanations of apparently supernatural phenomena such as miracles. He was concerned with how to manage religious activities within the state, not with the necessity of replacing religion altogether.

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Thomas Hobbes (April 5, 1588–December 4, 1679) was an English philosopher, whose famous 1651 book Leviathan set the agenda for nearly all subsequent Western political philosophy.
Although Hobbes is today best remembered for his work on political philosophy, he contributed to a diverse array of fields, including history, geometry, theology, ethics, general philosophy and what would now be called political science. Additionally, Hobbes's account of human nature as self-interested cooperation has proved to be an enduring theory in the field of philosophical anthropology.(more)

Interviews With Dead People:
Thomas Hobbes

“Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion.”

Hobbes's Moral and Political Philosophy

The Enlightenment Critique of 'Religion'

Hobbesian politics

On The Leviathan
by Tucker Peck

First Aid on Thomas Hobbes

Their promise of good governance
A group of political philosophers whom we call in political science social contractualists believe that state is not the result of growth. They point out that, it had been deliberately created by men who once lived without any state. According to them, actually the state had not by then come into existence.

Literary collection binding link to past
Remnant Trust books on loan at IUS library
by Dale Moss

A Horse Is A Horse, Of Course, Of Course
by David Goldstein
In The Leviathan Thomas Hobbes famously describes the condition of war as one of "every man against every man," a condition in which life is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." This is the condition in which our species surely evolved, a harsh existence in which our ancestors found themselves not only in dire competition with other species, but with each other. This the condition that is so deeply ingrained in our species that one is tempted to define humanity by the inhumanity we wreak on our fellow man.

The Leviathan

De Cive: Liberty

De Cive: Dominion

De Cive: Religion

The Elements of Law Natural and Politic

THOMAS HOBBES QUOTES
from Leviathan