With an Introduction by Dr Richard Serjeantson, Trinity College, Cambridge Since its first publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan has been recognised as one of the most compelling, and most co
★ 榮獲英國政治研究會麥肯齊圖書獎（W. J. M. Mackenzie Book Prize） ★風靡歐美思想學界三十年導讀西方政治思想史經典之大作從霍布斯到馬克思的兩百餘年間，是西方政治思想成果最豐富的時期。本書系統地闡釋了這個時期最重要的一批思想家的政治思想，包括：湯瑪斯．霍布斯（Thomas Hobbes）、約翰．洛克（John Locke）、大衛．休謨（David Hume）、尚—雅克．盧梭（Jean-Jacques Rousseau）、埃德蒙．柏克（Edmund Burke）、傑瑞米．邊沁、約翰．史都華．彌爾（John Stuart Mill）、黑格爾（G. W. F. Hegel）、卡爾．馬克思（Karl Marx），以及對《聯邦主義者》（The Federalist）文集的詳細解說。《現代政治思想史》在內容選擇上回歸經典解讀傳統，但在對經典的詮釋中又揉合了脈絡分析方法，既以對經典文本的系統、精深、透徹和清晰的解讀為中心，同時又以廣博的學識為基礎，對這些文本的歷史背景進行了廣泛、深入而融會貫通的論述，因而能夠幫助讀者閱讀和消化艱澀的經典著作，特別是讓那些對複雜多面的歷史情境缺少專業研究的讀者，能在真實而具體的歷史架構下理解這些深奧的思想內涵。蒙克力求剖析時代的焦點人物，並將主要思想家的觀點與政治史上的新潮流聯繫起來，梳理出西方近代政治思想史的理路，為廣大讀者增加了知識厚度。
Laurie Johnson Bagby examines the loss of the appreciation for honor in modern Western society through an examination of the political philosophy of English political philosopher Thomas Hobbes. She fi
This volume in the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes contains A dialogue between a philosopher and a student, of the common laws of England, edited by Alan Cromartie, supplemented by the
"A collection of essays analyzing the seventeenth-century British political theorist Thomas Hobbes from a feminist perspective"--Provided by publisher.
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.
Part of the ?Longman Library of Primary Sources in Philosophy,? this edition of Hobbes's The Leviathan is framed by a pedagogical structure designed to make this important work of philosophy more acce
