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Description for Leviathan
Paperback. Argues that human beings are first and foremost concerned with their own individual desires and fears. This book shows that a conflict of each against every man can only be avoided by the adoption of a compact to enforce peace. Num Pages: 619 pages. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 138 x 46. Weight in Grams: 618.
To read Hobbes on his own terms is to discover a provocative rival to contemporary perspectives on morals and politics, one that challenges widely shared assumptions about the roots of our rights and calls into question common conclusions about the scope of political authority in a society based on the consent of the governed. At the same time, it is to encounter a complement to contemporary perspectives on the liberal state, one that offers a distinctive and powerful basis for the political order that conforms to reason and secures the conditions under which human beings with differing conceptions of the ... Read more
To read Hobbes on his own terms is to discover a provocative rival to contemporary perspectives on morals and politics, one that challenges widely shared assumptions about the roots of our rights and calls into question common conclusions about the scope of political authority in a society based on the consent of the governed. At the same time, it is to encounter a complement to contemporary perspectives on the liberal state, one that offers a distinctive and powerful basis for the political order that conforms to reason and secures the conditions under which human beings with differing conceptions of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Regnery Publishing Inc United States
Number of pages
619
Condition
New
Number of Pages
619
Place of Publication
Washington DC, United States
ISBN
9781596980815
SKU
V9781596980815
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Ref
99-15
About Thomas Hobbes
Peter Berkowitz is among the preeminent scholars in political theory today and presents a probing criticism of the Leviathan. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University, teaches law, and chairs the Hoover Task Force on the Virtues of a Free Society.
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