Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Preface
1 Hobbes’s Life, Times, and General Philosophical Views
Hobbes’s Life and Times
Hobbes on Religion
Hobbes on Human Nature, Morality, and Justice
Hobbes on Language, Reasoning and Science
Hobbes’s Metaphysics
Hobbes’s Epistemology
Hobbes’s Common-sense Views
2 Human Nature
Psychological Egoism
Materialism and Egoism
Psychological Egoism versus Tautological Egoism
Human Beings as Natural Animals versus Human Beings as Citizens
Self-Preservation
Passions
Reason
Sense and Imagination
Appetite, Aversion, Pleasure, Pain and the Passions
Mental Disorders
Human Nature and Psychological Egoism
Rationality and the Good
Rationality and Human Nature
3 Hobbes’s Moral Theory
Moral Theories
Natural Law Theory
Hobbes’s Concept of Reason
The Laws of Nature and Morality
Philosopher or Polemicist
Interpretations of the Laws of Nature
God and the Laws of Nature
Distinguishing between Justice and Morality
Examination of each of the Laws of Nature that Dictates a Moral Virtue
Impartiality and Rationality Yield the Moral Virtues
Charity
Summary
4 Hobbes’s Political Theory
Hobbes and Social Contract Theories
Ways of Forming a Commonwealth
The Right of Nature and the Laws of Nature
Inalienable Rights
Arguments for Obeying the Law
Arguments for Entering into a Commonwealth
Summary
5 After Hobbes
Hobbes versus Locke
Hobbes on Sovereignty
Aristotle, Hobbes, and Hume
Consequentialism, Deontology, and Natural Law
Hobbes and Contemporary Political Philosophy: Rawls
Hobbes and Contemporary Moral Philosophy: Gert
Bibliography
Index
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