[PDF] Top 20 The reception of Hobbes's Leviathan

... the book was being read and it was doing its work; not only transforming passive readers into responsible authors of commonwealths, but also replicating its logic among those writers deploying Hobbesian tropes. But this ... See full document

... countering Hobbes’ point that, without cooperation, there is “no culture of the earth; no navigation… no instruments of moving [or] removing such things as require much force” ... See full document

... Hobbes opposed his mechanistic explanation of sense perception and radical reformed theology, derived from his materialist philosophy, to a theology corrupted by power games and speculative Aristotelian metaphys- ... See full document

... for Hobbes, does appear to seamlessly tie together unjust acts and ...injustice. Hobbes notes that “[f]rom defect in reasoning (that is to say, from error), men are prone to violate the laws three ways” ... See full document

... Ninguna de las tres facultades se pueden elegir, dominar y sostener porque partimos de la implacable realidad de la existencia del Leviatán de Hobbes. Negar su existencia es taparse los ojos y jugar a demiurgos en ... See full document

... lve s judges o f r ig h t and wrong, a re then le a s t a t q u ie t, when th e y a re most a t ...a s tly , n a tu r a l concord, such Is amongst th o se c re a tu re s , Is th e work o f God ... See full document

... Hobbes depicts the natural condition of mankind--known as the state of nature--as inherently violent and awash with fear. The state of nature is the "war of every man against every man," in which people ... See full document

... When people work together, who decides how their collective efforts are allocated and who receives the benefits from their collective product? This short one-person play contrasts several influential organization ... See full document

... Even if I am wrong about this particular case, it is undeniable that in our world Hobbes’s standard of justice is widely satisfied beyond the confines of individual states. For the extensive international trade that is ... See full document

... Thomas Hobbes social contract theory as a theoretical framework to explain the origin of the state and justify the absolute power of the government which is rooted in the consent and the consensus of the ... See full document

... In Limiting Leviathan , then, May shows that Hobbes influenced and was influenced by contemporary legal debates; he shows that Hobbes’s position was not static but developed over time; [r] ... See full document

... Totalitarianism exists in this instance not merely through regimes of complete control or even wholesale ideological inscription but as the only means for ensuring survival. Its totalistic character in this sense is ... See full document

... critical reception of Hobbes‟s work by a religious writer trained in the late scholastic ...with Hobbes‟s exclusion of the divine and the immaterial from natural ...authority ... See full document

... © Murphy, Peter, Jun 01,2012, The Collective Imagination The Creative Spirit of Free Societies Ashgate, Farnham, ISBN 9781409421368 Thomas Hobbes wrote in Leviathan (those that observe their similitud[.] ... See full document

... The confusion of good results, like an expertly played prelude, with learning is the mechanism through which technology makes academia seem absurd and infects students with the cool consumer attitude. One Calvin and ... See full document

... It is hoped that such an arrangement will show the rational choice interpretation's ability to concur with libertine notions of physical obligation as well as the conception of moral obl[r] ... See full document

... In fact, many Western European countries have managed to give a comprehensive social security, covering both public education and health care, until then unknown in the rest of the world[r] ... See full document

...  Perhaps encouraged by the positive reception of these international lectures and performances, and the popularity of his collection, in 1929 Hill premiered in S[r] ... See full document

... According to this argument, known as the government failure argument or sometimes the public choice theory, the costs of government failure are usually higher than those of market failur[r] ... See full document

... economically Leviathan government that maximizes the political utility of people whereas the conventional economically benevolent government maximizes the economic utility of ...The Leviathan view generally ... See full document