Submission and Subjection in Leviathan

Good Subjects in the Hobbesian Commonwealth
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-53528-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 127 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 2814 g

Leviathan invests the sovereign with nearly absolute power, and that vast sovereign has drawn the reader's eye for 350 years. Yet Hobbes has much to say about subjects as well, and he articulates a normative conception of a good subject.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Byron, M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. State of Nature 2. Laws of nature 3. Obligation 4. Subjection 5. Sovereigns

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Byron is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, where he has held an appointment since 1997. He is the editor of Satisficing and Maximizing: Moral Theorists on Practical Reason (2004), the co- author (with Deborah Barnbaum) of Research Ethics: Text and Readings (2001), and the author of numerous journal articles in normative ethical theory, metaethics, and theory of rationality.