21 Jul
20 Jul
Influence of Hobbes and Locke in the Shaping of the Concept of Sovereignty in 18th Century France
12 May
Leviathan : Thomas Hobbes, Bible, Leviathan, Society, Social contract, Andrew Crooke and William Cooke, English Civil War, State of nature, Sovereignty, … omnium contra omnes, Classical republicanism
Product DescriptionLeviathan, Matter, Form and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan is a book written by Thomas Hobbes which was published in 1651. It is titled after the biblical Leviathan. The book concerns the structure of society and the legitimate government, and is considered one of the most ancient and most influential of the social contract theory. The publisher was Andrew Crooke, partner in Andrew Crooke and William Cooke. It is often considered one of the most influential works of political thought deeply ever written. In the book, which was written during the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Hobbes wrote that chaos or civil war? situations identified with a state of nature and the omnium contra omnes famous motto Bellum (“war of all against all”)? could only be averted by strong central government. . . . More>>
5 Apr
Sovereignty and the Sword: Harrington, Hobbes, and Mixed Government in the English Civil Wars
Product DescriptionThis book places the political thought of mid-seventeenth-century England within the context of the English civil wars and offers fresh insights into the principles on which two of the great figures of political thought, Thomas Hobbes and James Harrington, constructed their main arguments. Arihiro Fukuda shows Harrington to have been, no less than Hobbes, a theorist of absolute sovereignty. But where Hobbes repudiated the mixed governments of classical antiquity, Harrington was convinced that mixed government, far from being the enemy of absolute sovereignty, was its essential foundation. Fukuda shows how Harrington, in recasting Hobbes’s thought, achieved an originality and profundity as striking as his rivals. . . . More >>
Sovereignty and the Sword: Harrington, Hobbes, and Mixed Government in the English Civil Wars
10 Mar
Popular Sovereignty: Consent of the Governed, Political Power, Parliamentary Sovereignty, Declaration of Arbroath, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke
Product DescriptionHigh quality content by Wikipedia articles! Popular sovereignty and popular sovereignty is the belief that the legitimacy of the state is created by the will or consent of his people, who are the source of political power. It is closely associated with the social contract philosophers, including Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Popular sovereignty expresses a concept and do not necessarily reflect or describe a political reality. It is often contrasted with the concept of parliamentary sovereignty. Benjamin Franklin expressed the idea when he writes: “In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people their superiors and sovereigns…. More>>
