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Logic of Leviathan by Gauthier (1979, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100198246161

ISBN-139780198246169

eBay Product ID (ePID)1354956

Product Key Features

Number of Pages228 Pages

Publication NameLogic of Leviathan

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1979

SubjectEthics & Moral Philosophy, Political

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPhilosophy

AuthorGauthier

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight10.4 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN79-040262

Dewey Edition19

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal320.1

SynopsisThis book presents the most plausible reading of Thomas Hobbes's moral and political theory based on his book, Leviathan. Hobbes constructs a political theory that bases unlimited political authority on unlimited individualism. The conclusion requires the premiss; anything less than unlimited individualism would justify only limited political authority. But the premiss is too strong for the conclusions; as this book shows, from unlimited individualism only anarchy follows. The theory is a failure. But it has two outstanding merits. First of all, Hobbes introduces a number of important moral and political concepts that deserve our attention. Obligation is his basic moral concept, while authorisation is his basic political concept. Hobbes relies neither on the goodwill of men - their willingness to consider each other's interests for their own sake, and not as means to self-satisfaction - nor on the efficacy of institutions, as the means of both concentrating and limiting political power. Aside from political and moral theory, the book explores Hobbes's views on the nature of man, sovereignty, and God., Oxford Scholarly Classics brings together a number of great academic works from the archives of Oxford University Press. Reissued in a uniform series design, they will enable libraries, scholars, and students to gain fresh access to some of the finest scholarship of the last century.

LC Classification NumberJC153.H6