Thomas Hobbes’ theory of law carries through the paradox of supporting binding civil laws which depend upon an invisible authorizing origin.
Burkhard Tuschling
Thomas Hobbessaw Society as a giant machine (perpetually in motion), thus the title of his great work,The Leviathan, which is founded on Mechanics (the Motion of Bodies / Matter). In Leviathan, Hobbes argues that the natural state of man (without any civil government) is war, ... the ...
view of justice is based on his view of what he names the state of nature and the right of nature. Hobbes defines the state of nature as a “war” of everyone against everyone. Hobbes describes the right of nature to be self-preservation. Justice, in order to appease both the state of...
ThomasHobbes •Leviathan •InLeviathan,Hobbessetouthisdoctrineofthefoundationofstatesandlegitimategovernments-basedonsocialcontracttheories.LeviathanwaswrittenduringtheEnglishCivilWar;muchofthebookisoccupiedwithdemonstratingthenecessityofastrongcentralauthoritytoavoidtheevilofdiscordandcivilwar.•Beginningfroma...
Jesus in an Age of Enlightenment: Radical Gospels from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson. Intervening in both historical conceptions of Christ and Enlightenment Studies, the book is a tightly argued and meticulously researched piece of intellectual history that ranges from key prec...
More importantly, we must acknowledge that Hobbes is commonly associated with the spread of rationalism in the Western world (Lilla 2007, p. 88); the Bible, he argued, could offer practical answers to timely questions instead of encouraging superstition. In Section 3 we will explain how in ...