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Title: On the Citizen by Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck, Michael Silverthorne ISBN: 0-521-43780-6 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
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Comment: It's a bit difficult to know who to recommend this book to. It's not that it's a bad book - it isn't - rather that it contains almost exactly the same arguments as Leviathan, only shorter and in less detail. Consequently they are more convincing in Leviathan than here, and I have to recommend Leviathan instead of this.
If you're unfamiliar with Hobbes, what his political argument basically boils down to is that people are naturally bad, and will all try to steal from their fellows, and kill those that displease them, and so on, meaning that in their natural state man is in a constant state of war. It is necessary then to establish the Leviathan, that is, a Sovereign, who has ultimate power unquestioned by anyone, who stops men from fighting by imposing laws with penalties for breaking them so harsh that it would be madness to not obey them. In this way order is kept.
That is the argument put forward here, and in the Leviathan, only, as I said, the Leviathan puts it better. I can only think this book would be useful to those who find the 500 odd pages of the Leviathan too daunting, and want to start with something shorter.
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Title: Human Nature and DeCorpore Politico (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Hobbes, J. C. A. Gaskin ISBN: 019283682X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Behemoth: Or the Long Parliament by Thomas Hobbes ISBN: 0226345440 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1990 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes, T. Hobbs, C. B. MacPherson ISBN: 0140431950 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1982 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: On the Duty of Man and Citizen According to Natural Law by Samuel Pufendorf, James Tully, Michael Silverthorne ISBN: 0521359805 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1991 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Rousseau-The Discourses and Other Early Political Thought by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Victor Gourevitch ISBN: 0521424453 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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