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Autor: Hobbes, Thomas
Editorial: WORDSWORTH EDITIONS
Lenguaje: Inglés
ISBN13: 9781840227338
Reseña: With an Introduction by Dr Richard Serjeantson Trinity College Cambridge Since its first publication in 1651 Thomas Hobbess Leviathan has been recognised as one of the most compelling and most controversial works of political philosophy written in English. Forged in the crucible of the civil and religious warfare of the mid-seventeenth century it proposes a political theory that combines an unequivocal commitment to natural human liberty with the conviction that the sovereign power of government must be exercised absolutely. Leviathan begins from some shockingly naturalistic starting-points: an analysis of human nature as being motivated by vain-glory and pride and a vision of religion as simply the fear of invisible powers made up by the mind. Yet from these deliberately unpromising elements Hobbes constructs with unparalleled forcefulness an elaborate systematic and comprehensive account of how political society ought to be: ordered law-bound peaceful. In Leviathan Hobbes presents us with a portrait of politics which depicts how a state that is made up of the unified body of all its citizens will be powerful fruitful protective of each of its members and - above all - free from internal violence.
