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Leviathan de Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan: Mint Editions (Political and Social Narratives)

Autor Thomas Hobbes
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 feb 2021

Capitolul referitor la „starea naturală” a omului rămâne, poate, cea mai influentă secțiune a acestui tratat, definind viziunea lui Thomas Hobbes asupra necesității autorității statale. Scris în contextul sângeros al Războiului Civil Englez, Leviathan nu este doar o pledoarie pentru absolutism, ci o analiză riguroasă a mecanismelor puterii și a psihologiei umane. Reținem argumentul central al autorului: fără o putere comună care să îi țină pe toți în frâu, societatea decade inevitabil într-un conflict perpetuu, unde viața este „singuratică, săracă, urâtă, brutală și scurtă”. Din punct de vedere vizual și simbolic, ediția publicată de WORDSWORTH EDITIONS LTD păstrează celebra iconografie a frontispiciului original, unde figura gigantică a statului este compusă din cetățenii săi, reflectând fuziunea dintre puterea seculară și cea spirituală. Această structură extinde cadrul propus de The Prince de Niccolò Machiavelli, trecând de la pragmatismul politic al principelui la o fundamentare teoretică și juridică a contractului social. În contextul operei sale, Leviathan reprezintă maturizarea conceptelor explorate în The Elements of Law Natural and Politic, unde Hobbes începuse deja să schițeze ideea că frica de moarte violentă este motorul principal al organizării politice. Această ediție în limba engleză oferă studenților și cercetătorilor acces la un text dens, dar logic, structurat pentru a demonstra cum rațiunea dictează căutarea păcii. Spre deosebire de analizele contemporane precum An Analysis of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan de Jeremy Kleidosty, care oferă o perspectivă critică modernă, textul original ne permite să urmărim direct stilul geometric și deductiv prin care Hobbes a redefinit fundamentele guvernării.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781513206608
ISBN-10: 1513206605
Pagini: 554
Dimensiuni: 132 x 209 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Editura: Mint Editions
Colecția Mint Editions (Political and Social Narratives)
Seria Mint Editions (Political and Social Narratives)

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această ediție a Leviathan tuturor celor pasionați de istoria ideilor politice și filozofie morală. Este textul care a pus bazele conceptului de contract social, oferind o perspectivă fascinantă asupra modului în care autoritatea legitimă se naște din nevoia de securitate. Cititorul va câștiga o înțelegere profundă a rădăcinilor statului modern și a dilemelor dintre libertatea individuală și ordinea colectivă.

Despre autor

Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) a fost un filozof englez de prim rang, considerat unul dintre pionierii filozofiei politice moderne. Format la Oxford, Hobbes a fost martorul tensiunilor politice majore din secolul al XVII-lea, experiență care i-a modelat viziunea sceptică asupra naturii umane. Deși este recunoscut în principal pentru Leviathan și teoria contractului social, interesele sale au fost vaste, incluzând istoria (a tradus The Peloponnesian War de Tucidide), geometria, teologia și etica. Opera sa a provocat controverse majore în epocă, fiind criticată atât de biserică, cât și de susținătorii parlamentarismului, dar rămâne un pilon indispensabil al gândirii occidentale.

Notă biografică

Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 - 4 December 1679), was an English philosopher, considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. In addition to political philosophy, Hobbes contributed to a diverse array of other fields, including history, jurisprudence, geometry, the physics of gases, theology, and ethics, as well as philosophy in general.

Descriere scurtă

Written by one of the founders of modern political philosophy, Thomas Hobbes, during the English civil war, Leviathan is an influential work of nonfiction. Regarded as one of the earliest examples of the social contract theory, Leviathan has both historical and philosophical importance. Social contract theory prioritizes the state over the individual, claiming that individuals have consented to the surrender of some of their freedoms by participating in society. These surrendered freedoms help ensure that the government can be run easily. In exchange for their sacrifice, the individual is protected and given a place in a steady social order. Articulating this theory, Hobbes argues for a strong, undivided government ruled by an absolute sovereign. To support his argument, Hobbes includes topics of religion, human nature and taxation. Separated into four sections, Hobbes claims his theory to be the resolution of the civil war that raged on as he wrote, creating chaos and taking causalities. The first section, Of Man discusses the role human nature and instinct plays in the formation of government. The second section, Of Commonwealth explains the definition, implications, types, and rules of succession in a commonwealth government. Of a Christian Commonwealth imagines the religion's role government and societal moral standards. Finally, Hobbes closes his argument with Of the Kingdom of Darkness. Through the use of philosophical theory and historical study, Thomas Hobbes attempts to convince citizens to consider the cost and reward of being governed. Without an understanding of the sociopolitical theories that keep government bodies in power, subjects can easily become complicit or allow society to slip into anarchy. Created during a brutal civil war, Hobbes hoped to educate and persuade his peers. Though Leviathan was a work of controversy in its time, Hobbes' theories and prose has survived centuries, shaping the ideas of modern philosophy. This edition of Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes is now presented with a stunning new cover design and is printed in an easy-to-read font. With these accommodations, Leviathan is accessible and applicable to contemporary readers. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

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'He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read inhimself, not this, or that particular man; but Man-kind.'Thomas Hobbes's Leviathanis not just one of the greatest philosophicaltexts in the English language; it is one of the most important works in thehistory of Western political thought. Almost every major tradition in thecenturies after Hobbes - from radical democracy to authoritarianism - hasbeen influenced by its arguments. Written in exile in a period of dramaticdevelopments - civil war and regicide - Leviathanis in some ways theproduct of its own special circumstances. And yet, at the same time,it deals with fundamental issues that matter to all of us today: the natureand purpose of the state, the relation between human nature and politics,the idea of natural rights, the justification of authority, the concept ofrepresentation, the nature of sovereignty, the limits of obedience, andthe relationship between religious obligations and human ones.This new edition offers a definitive text drawn from more than twentyyears of research by Noel Malcolm, including, in English translation, allthe most significant revisions made in Hobbes's later Latin translation of Leviathan, as well as extensive explanatory notes that elucidate Hobbes'slanguage and identify the many Biblical, classical, and other allusionsthat are scattered through his text.

Cuprins

  • General Introduction
  • Textual Introduction
  • Selected Further Reading
  • How to Use This Edition
  • Abbreviations
  • Leviathan
  • Translation of Ch. 9 of the Latin Leviathan
  • Translation of Ch. 46 of the Latin Leviathan
  • Translation of Ch. 47 of the Latin Leviathan
  • Translation of the Appendix to the Latin Leviathan: Ch. 1
  • Translation of the Appendix to the Latin Leviathan: Ch. 2
  • Translation of the Appendix to the Latin Leviathan: Ch. 3
  • Explanatory Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Recenzii

"A scholar's edition at a student price!" --Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University

"The translation of Latin variants and the index of Biblical citations mark this off as by far the best edition of the Leviathan." --Thomas Pangle, University of Toronto

"Plainly the best edition of Leviathan. Superbly edited and indexed, with footnote passages from the Latin edition, a helpful glossary, biographical and autobiographical material, and a translation of Hobbes on the Nicene Creed, it will be an indispensable study tool. Curley’s introduction is masterly." --Jerome Schneewind, Johns Hopkins University

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan is the greatest work of political philosophy in English and the first great work of philosophy in English. In addition, it presents the fundamentals of his beliefs about language, epistemology, and an extensive treatment of revealed religion and its relation to politics. Beginning with premises that were sometimes controversial, such as that every human action is caused by the agent's desire for his own good, Hobbes derived shocking conclusions, such as that the civil government enjoys absolute control over its citizens and that the sovereign has the right to determine which religion is to be practiced in a commonwealth. Hobbes's contemporaries recognized the power of the arguments in Leviathan and many of them wrote responses to it. Selections from books by John Bramhall, Robert Filmer, Edward Hyde, George Lawson, William Lucy, Samuel Pufendorf and Thomas Tenison are included in this edition.Leviathan is divided into four parts: In the first part, Of Man, Hobbes presents a view of human beings and of the natural world in general that is materialistic and mechanistic. In the second part, Of Commonwealth, he defends the theory of absolute sovereignty, the view that the government has all the political power and has the right to control any aspect of life. In the third part, Of a Christian Commonwealth, he critiques concepts like revelation, prophets, and miracles in such a way that it becomes doubtful whether they can be rationally justified. In the fourth part, Of the Kingdom of Darkness, he explains various ways in which priestly religion has corrupted religion and transgressed the rights of the sovereign.In this revised edition of Hobbes's classic work, A.P. Martinich improves Hobbes's punctuation for the sake of clarity. He has also added new notes for readers, extensive cross references, and substantial part of Hobbes's reply to Bramhall's The Catching of Leviathan.