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Sovereignty as a Vocation in Hobbes’s Leviathan : New foundations, Statecraft, and Virtue
| Title: | Sovereignty as a Vocation in Hobbes’s Leviathan : New foundations, Statecraft, and Virtue |
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| Authors: | Hoye, Matthew |
| Publisher Information: | Amsterdam University Press, 2023. |
| Publication Year: | 2023 |
| Original Material: | MODID-d66f183fd58:Amsterdam University Press |
| Subject Terms: | Political Science / History & Theory, Philosophy / Political, Political Science / Political Ideologies |
| Description: | This book is about virtue and statecraft in Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan. Its overarching argument is that the fundamental foundation of Hobbes’s political philosophy in Leviathan is wise, generous, loving, sincere, just, and valiant—in sum, magnanimous—statecraft, whereby sovereigns aim to realize natural justice, manifest as eminent and other-regarding virtue. I argue that concerns over the virtues of the natural person bearing the office of the sovereign suffuse Hobbes’s political philosophy, defining both his theory of new foundations and his critiques of law and obligation. These aspects of Hobbes’s thought are new to Leviathan, as they respond to limitations in his early works in political theory, Elements and De Cive—limitations made apparent by the civil wars and the regicide of Charles I. Though new, I argue that they tap into ancient political and philosophical ideas, foremostly the variously celebrated, mystified, and maligned figure of the orator founder. |
| Document Type: | BOOK |
| File Description: | application/pdf |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 978-90-485-5792-9 90-485-5792-5 |
| Access URL: | https://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/8dc4b11a-b3b3-4909-8a79-338dccd91093 https://openresearchlibrary.org/ext/api/media/8dc4b11a-b3b3-4909-8a79-338dccd91093/assets/external_content.pdf |
| Accession Number: | edsors.8dc4b11a.b3b3.4909.8a79.338dccd91093 |
| Database: | Open Research Library |
| ISBN: | 9789048557929 9048557925 |
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