Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was born in Malmesbury. Entering Magdalen Hall, Oxford, in 1603, he took his degree in 1608 and became tutor to the eldest son of Lord Cavendish of Hardwick, afterwards the Earl of Devonshire; his connection with this family was life-long. His first interest was in the classics, and his first published work a translation of Thucydides, in 1628. An interest in science and philosophy soon developed, heightened by extended travels in Europe in 1629-31 and 1634-37. This led to his great project of a political science. His first verson of this, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic, was privately circulated in 1640, when Parliament was hotly disputing the king’s powers, and Hobbes fled to Paris, where he stayed for eleven years.
A second version, De Cive, was published in 1642, and the third, Leviathan—the crowning achievement of his political science—in 1651. It was so influential that it came under widespread attack and was in danger of condemnation by the House of Commons. Hobbes perforce lived quietly and published little more on political matters. At the age of eighty-four he composed an autobiography in Latin verse, and within the next three years translated the whole of Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad.
“During the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called Warre”
Written during the turmoil of the English Civil War, Leviathan is an ambitious and highly original work of political philosophy. Claiming that man’s essential nature is competitive and selfish, Hobbes formulates the case for a powerful sovereign—or “Leviathan”—to enforce peace and the law, substituting security for the anarchic freedom he believed human beings would otherwise experience. This worldview shocked many of Hobbes’s contemporaries, and his work was publicly burnt for sedition and blasphemy when it was first published. But in his rejection of Aristotle’s view of man as a naturally social being, and in his painstaking analysis of the ways in which society can and should function, Hobbes opened up a whole new world of political science.
Based on the original 1651 text, this edition incorporates Hobbes’s own corrections, while also retaining the original spelling and punctuation, to read with vividness and clarity. C. B. Macpherson’s introduction elucidates one of the most fascinating works of modern philosophy for the general reader.
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这次抗疫,引发全国以举国之力,众志成城,发挥了体制优势。看到武汉方舱病床上的小伙子,看福山的“政治秩序的起源”。其实,想了解国家体制的起源,他应该看这本书-利维坦。 该书在本科时,是政治哲学必读书。但真正读懂,是在毕业以后。利维坦是圣经里的巨大怪物,作者霍布...
評分今天,当我们谈到民主与专制时,恐怕没有人会怀疑两者孰优孰劣。似乎历史已经向我们证明了:专制是邪恶的、落后的、愚昧的象征,民主是正义的、先进的、智慧的象征,民主制度终将取代专制制度。 然而,这样的普世观念是我们自己认真思考后得出的结论吗?这其中是否掺杂有偏见?...
評分罗马法规定,有一种罪人,叫做“神圣的人”,其特点在于: (1)他不可被用来祭祀, (2)人人可以杀死他而不被判处谋杀。 其中(1)表明他是神法的例外,(2)表明他是人法的例外。 在古罗马,人法和神法是相互联系在一起的。在人法中处死一个人,必然是作为给神的献祭的,...
評分这次抗疫,引发全国以举国之力,众志成城,发挥了体制优势。看到武汉方舱病床上的小伙子,看福山的“政治秩序的起源”。其实,想了解国家体制的起源,他应该看这本书-利维坦。 该书在本科时,是政治哲学必读书。但真正读懂,是在毕业以后。利维坦是圣经里的巨大怪物,作者霍布...
評分一、霍布斯的自由主义者争论 霍布斯《利维坦》的主题,长期被简化为国家机器是因为“一切人反对一切人”才不得已诞生的,又由于霍布斯强调了人受到本能里竞争、荣誉、猜疑(p94)等激情的驱使而斗争,似乎他就成为了个人主义甚至自由主义的代言人(比如本书的一些短评)。 如今...
I authorise and give up my right of governing myself to this man, or to this assembly of men, on this condition; that thou give up, thy right to him, and authorise all his actions in like manner.
评分封麵很有意思,真的很anti Aristotle。但同時methodology又還是很Aristotle啦。
评分真的不是太看得進去!
评分兩天讀完英文版利維坦以及論人類不平等的起源和基礎第一部分。這在豆瓣是什麼水平?
评分MacPherson的導言有點意思
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