A Companion to Hobbes

A Companion to Hobbes
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Offers comprehensive treatment of Thomas Hobbes’s thought, providing readers with different ways of understanding Hobbes as a systematic philosopher    As one of the founders of modern political philosophy, Thomas Hobbes is best known for his ideas regarding the nature of legitimate government and the necessity of society submitting to the absolute authority of sovereign power. Yet Hobbes produced a wide range of writings, from translations of texts by Homer and Thucydides, to interpretations of Biblical books, to works devoted to geometry, optics, morality, and religion. Hobbes viewed himself as presenting a unified method for theoretical and practical science—an interconnected system of philosophy that provides many entry points into his thought.  A Companion to Hobbes  is an expertly curated collection of essays offering close textual engagement with the thought of Thomas Hobbes in his major works while probing his ideas regarding natural philosophy, mathematics, human nature, civil philosophy, religion, and more. The Companion discusses the ways in which scholars have tried to understand the unity and diversity of Hobbes’s philosophical system and examines the reception of the different parts of Hobbes’s philosophy by thinkers such as René Descartes, Margaret Cavendish, David Hume, and Immanuel Kant. Presenting a diversity of fresh perspectives by both emerging and established scholars, this volume:  Provides a comprehensive treatment of Hobbes’s thought in his works, including Elements of Law, Elements of Philosophy, and Leviathan Explores the connecting points between Hobbes’ metaphysics, epistemology, mathematics, natural philosophy, morality, and civil philosophy Offers readers strategies for understanding how the parts of Hobbes’s philosophical system fit together Examines Hobbes’s philosophy of mathematics and his attempts to understand geometrical objects and definitions Considers Hobbes’s philosophy in contexts such as the natural state of humans, gender relations, and materialist worldviews Challenges conceptions of Hobbes’s moral theory and his views about the rights of sovereigns Part of the acclaimed  Blackwell Companions to Philosophy  series,  A Companion to Hobbes  is an invaluable resource for scholars and advanced students of Early modern thought, particularly those from disciplines such as History of Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Intellectual History, History of Politics, Political Theory, and English.

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A Companion to Hobbes

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Guide

Pages

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: The Presentation and Structure of Thomas Hobbes’s Philosophy

1 The Presentation of Hobbes’s Major Writings

2 The Organization of A Companion to Hobbes

2.1 First Philosophy, Mathematics, and Natural Philosophy

2.2 Human Nature and Morality

2.3 Civil Philosophy

2.4 Religion

2.5 Controversies and Reception

3 Strategies for Unity among the Parts of Hobbes’s Philosophy

4 Conclusion

References

Abbreviations for Citations to Hobbes’s Works

Notes

1 Hobbes’s Unified Method for Scientia

1.1 Method, Science, and Hobbes’s Project

1.2 Hobbes’s Method for Scientific Knowing

1.3 Analyses and Syntheses Reinterpreted in Context

1.4 Conclusion

References

Notes

2 The Stoic Roots of Hobbes’s Natural Philosophy and First Philosophy

2.1 Stoic Sources

2.1.1 Tertullian

2.1.2 Neo-Stoicism

2.1.3 The Cavendish Circle

2.2 Stoic Roots. 2.2.1 Space and Body

2.2.2 Time and Mind

2.2.3 Causality

2.2.4 God

2.3 Conclusion

Notes

References

3 Hobbesian Mathematics and the Dispute with Wallis

3.1 The Hobbesian Philosophy of Mathematics

3.1.1 Hobbes’s Mathematical Ontology

3.1.2 Hobbes on Geometric First Principles

3.1.3 The Status of Algebraic and Infinitesimal Methods

3.2 The Dispute with Wallis

3.2.1 Origins of the Dispute

3.2.2 The Method of Motion and Hobbes’s Geometric Ambitions

3.3 Conclusion

Notes

References

4 Explanations in Hobbes’s Optics and Natural Philosophy

4.1 Statements about the Relationships amongthe Parts of Philosophy

4.2 Hobbesian Optics: The Visual Line and the Optic Axis in De Homine II

4.3 Hobbesian Natural Philosophy: Sense in De Corpore XXV

4.4 Conclusion

Notes

References

5 “A Most Useful Economy”: Hobbes on Linguistic Meaning and Understanding

5.1 Cognition and the Signification of Signs

5.2 The Uses of Names

5.3 Truth and Propositional Judgments

5.4 Understanding Linguistic Signs

5.5 Conclusion

References

Notes

6 Hobbes’s Theory of the Good: Felicity by Anticipatory Pleasure

6.1 Four Distinct Questions about Goodness and “Good”

6.2 The Meaning of “Good”: The Customary vs. Reforming Sense

6.3 What Makes a Life Good: Anticipatory Pleasure

6.4 Conclusion

Acknowledgment

References

Notes

7 In Search of “A Constant Civill Amity”: Hobbes on Friendship and Sociability

7.1 Hobbesian Friendship: Power and Contract

7.2 Friendship: Glue or Solvent?

7.3 True Friendship: Virtue or Vice?

7.4 Sociability: Natural Remedy or Prescription Drug?

7.5 Conclusion: A Constant Civil Amity

References

Notes

8. Hobbes on Power and Gender Relations

8.1 Dominion and Gender Relations

8.2 Sexual Stratification Without Domination

8.3 The Alternative Model: Deference

8.4 Deference and Gender Relations

Conclusion

Notes

References

9 The State of Nature as a Continuum Concept

9.1 What Is the State of Nature? 9.1.1 The Condition of Atomistic Asocial Individuals

9.1.2 A Condition Absent Law

9.1.3 A Condition of the Rightful Exercise of Private Judgment

9.2 The State of Nature as a Continuum Concept

9.3 Conclusion: What Difference Does It Make to the Interpretation of Hobbes Whether States of Nature and Civil Societies Lie on a Continuum or Are Instead Diametrically Opposed?

Notes

Bibliography

10 Hobbes’s Minimalist Moral Theory

10.1 Textual Arguments for the Minimalist Theory

10.2 Problem Cases: Cruelty and Covenants

10.3 Analytical Arguments for the Minimalist Theory

10.4 Comparison with Other Interpretations

10.5 Conclusion

Notes

References

11 Hobbesian Persons and Representation

11.1 Of Authors, Actors and Authorization

11.2 Of the Person of the State

11.3 Conclusion

Notes

References

12 Hobbes’s Account of Authorizing a Sovereign

12.1 Hobbes’s Account

12.2 Contracts and Covenants

12.3 Erecting a Common Power

12.4 The Simple Account

12.5 Problems with the Simple Account

12.6 The First Step

12.7 Leviathan, the Person

12.8 The Second Step

12.9 The Interval Between the Steps

12.10 Counter-Evidence and Hobbes’s Defense

12.11 Conditionality

12.12 Conclusion: Implications of the Complex Account

References

Notes

13 The Strength and Significance of Subjects’ Rights in Leviathan

13.1 Hobbes’s Theory of Rights

13.2 The Absolutism of the Hobbesian Sovereign Precludes Strong Rights for Subjects

13.3 Against the Orthodoxy: Hobbesian Rights Are Not All Hohfeldian Liberty Rights

13.4 Conclusion

Notes

References

14 Hobbes on Sovereignty and Its Strains

14.1 What Is a Sovereign?

14.2 Sovereignty and the Causes of State Collapse

14.3 The Rights of the Sovereign

14.4 The Limits of Sovereign Rights

14.5 The Strains of Sovereignty

14.6 Conclusion

Notes

References

15 Hobbes on International Ethics

15.1 States of War

15.2 A Naturalistic Conception of the Law of Nations

15.3 De cive: States as Rights-Bearing Persons

15.4 Leviathan: Jus Gentium and the Office of the Sovereign

15.5 Justice and Just War as Merely Requiring Right Intention

15.6 Conclusion

Notes

References

16 Against Philosophical Darkness: A Political Conception of Enlightenment

16.1 Institutional Darkness: Why Schools Don’t Matter So Much

16.2 Linguistic Darkness: The Language of the State Against Scholastic Neo-Latin

16.3 Metaphysical Darkness: Essences Are Not Separate Entities

16.4 Conclusion

Notes

References

17 Hobbes on Submission to God

17.1 Kingdom of God by Nature

17.2 Exclusion from the Natural Kingdom

17.3 Omnipotence and Subjects

17.4 Atheists and Deists

17.5 Natural Subjects and Acknowledgment

17.6 God’s Dominion

17.7 Obligation

17.8 Acknowledgment

17.8.1 “Voluntary”

17.8.2 Faith

17.8.3 Submission

Conclusion

Notes

References

18 Thomas Hobbes and the Christian Commonwealth

18.1 The Christian Commonwealth in Hobbes’s Major Texts

18.2 Hobbes and the Christian Commonwealths of Rome and Canterbury

18.3 Hobbes and the Christian Commonwealth of the Sects

18.4 Conclusion

Notes

References

19 Hobbes and Toleration

19.1 Sin and Godly Rule: Hobbes, Toleration, and the Clergy

19.2 The State and Religious Liberty: Belief

19.3 The State and Religious Liberty: Action

19.4 Public Worship, the Untying of the Knots, and Religious Liberty

19.5 Conclusion

References

20 Hobbes, Rome’s Enemy

20.1 Bellarmine as Hobbes’s Target

20.2 Papal Indirect Power between Nostalgia and Innovation

20.3 Varieties of Anti-Romanism

20.4 Rome v. Hobbes

20.5 Conclusion

Notes

References

21 Hobbes and the Papal Monarchy

21.1 Hobbes and the Papal Monarchy, a Neglected Subject

21.2 Hobbes and the Ghost of the Roman Empire

21.3 Hobbes’s Analysis of the Papal Monarchy

21.4 Hobbes and the Corpus Mysticum

21.5 Decline of the Papal Monarchy, Aristotelianism, and Islam

21.6 Hobbes Roman Law and the Persona Ficta

21.7 Conclusion

Notes

References

22 Body and Space in Hobbes and Descartes

22.1 Body. 22.1.1 Hobbes on Body and Accident, Real and Imaginary Space

22.1.2 Contrasting Hobbes and Descartes on Body

22.2 Space and Void. 22.2.1 Hobbes and Descartes on Void Space

22.2.2 Hobbes’s Case Against Void Space

22.3 Imaginary Space and Immobility

22.4 Conclusion

Notes

References

23 Hobbes’s Mechanical Philosophy and Its English Critics

23.1 Hobbes’s Mechanical Philosophy

23.2 English Critics of Hobbes’s Mechanical Philosophy

23.3 Robert Boyle and Hobbes

23.4 Henry More and Hobbes

23.5 Conclusion

References

24 Cudworth as a Critic of Hobbes

24.1 Introducing Cudworth

24.2 Hobbes and Atheism in the True Intellectual System

24.2.1 An Argument for Atheism

24.2.2 Cudworth’s Arguments That We Do Have an Idea of God

24.2.3 Cudworth’s Response to Arguments That We Have No Idea of God

24.3 Morality in the Treatise on Eternal and Immutable Morality. 24.3.1 The Structure and Topics of the Treatise

24.3.2 Against the View That Morality Depends on Decision

24.4 Conclusion

Notes

References

25 Cavendish and Hobbes on Causation

25.1 Natural Philosophy and Causation

25.2 Entire or Principle Causes

25.3 External Objects as Necessary and Sufficient for Proper Perception

25.4 Nature as the Principal Cause

25.5 Determinism?

25.6 Conclusion

Notes

References

26 Striving, Happiness, and the Good: Spinoza as Follower and Critic of Hobbes

Fundamentals of Moral Motivation

Critique of Scholasticism

Hobbes on Motivation

Spinoza on Motivation

Striving and Essence

Spinoza on Striving and Essence

Hobbes on Striving and Essence

Action, Artifice, and Civil Life

Striving, Happiness, and the Good

Hobbes on Happiness and the Good

Spinoza on Happiness and the Good

Conclusion

Acknowledgment

Notes

Works Cited

27 Hobbes and Astell on War and Peace

27.1 Astell on Hobbes and “Just Causes”

27.2 Astell and Hobbes on the Maintenance of Peace

27.3 Astell on Women and Peace

27.4 Conclusion

Notes

References

28 Hobbes and Hume on Human Nature: “Much of a Dispute of Words?”

28.1 Selfishness and Psychological Egoism

28.2 Selfishness and Sympathy

28.3 Selfishness and Innate Appetites

28.4 Two Images of Human Nature

28.5 Conclusion

Notes

References

29 He Shows “Genius” and Is “More Useful than Pufendorf”: Kant’s Reception of Hobbes

29.1 A Paradoxical Thinker in Whose Writing Genius Reigns

29.2 Leviathan and the Power of Analogy

29.3 The Power of Psychology: Hobbes’s Method

29.4 Conclusion

Notes

References

30 Catharine Macaulay and the Reception of Hobbes During the Eighteenth Century

30.1 Hobbes in the Eighteenth Century

30.2 Macaulay’s Loose Remarks

30.3 Conclusion

Note

References

Index

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