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Free Download Johann P. Sommerville, "Thomas Hobbes: Elements of Law "
English | ISBN: 019958625X | 2025 | 336 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Hobbes’s Elements of Law was written in 1640, on the eve of the English Civil War. It circulated in manuscript, and eleven manuscripts now survive. Two of them contain a substantial amount of material in Hobbes’s own handwriting. Soon after writing it, Hobbes fled to France, while in England civil war broke out over many of the issues discussed by Hobbes in this book. In France he wrote a Latin version of his political theory (De Cive, on the Citizen), and then the English Leviathan, of which a Latin revision followed and in which he greatly expanded what he had to say about religion and church-state relations. The Elements of Law presents a complete but succinct version of Hobbes’s political theory and of his more general philosophy. It analyzes the nature of knowledge and science, discusses psychology and human nature, surveys the rights and duties of individuals, and argues for the need of states to be governed by sovereign authority. It discusses the relationship between politics and religion, and the extent and limitations of political power. It is ‘a work of extraordinary assurance, an almost fully fledged statement of Hobbes’s entire political philosophy’. (Noel Malcolm)

Free Download Johan Olsthoorn, "Hobbes on Justice"
English | ISBN: 0198867980 | 2025 | 320 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is widely regarded as one of the most important political thinkers in the Western tradition. Justice is one of the main political concepts today. This is the first book-length analysis of Hobbes’s ideas on justice.

Free Download Chia-Yu Chou, "Rethinking Hobbes and Kant: The Role and Consequences of Assumption in Political Theory"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1032097744, 147247256X | EPUB | pages: 170 | 0.3 mb
Rethinking Hobbes and Kant argues that predominant approaches to the theoretical relationship between Hobbes and Kant have reached conclusions that were pre-digested in assumptions about the ‘isms’ which these two writers are propounding. Chou shows how these assumptions have inhibited commentators from recognising the affinities between Hobbes’s and Kant’s political philosophies, or, if they have, prevented them from providing a plausible explanation of those affinities.

Free Download Douglas M. Jesseph, "Squaring the Circle: The War between Hobbes and Wallis "
English | ISBN: 0226398994 | 2000 | 433 pages | PDF | 12 MB
In 1655, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes claimed he had solved the centuries-old problem of "squaring of the circle" (constructing a square equal in area to a given circle). With a scathing rebuttal to Hobbes’s claims, the mathematician John Wallis began one of the longest and most intense intellectual disputes of all time. Squaring the Circle is a detailed account of this controversy, from the core mathematics to the broader philosophical, political, and religious issues at stake.

Free Download Nevin Martell, "Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and his Revolutionary Comic Strip"
English | 2010 | pages: 268 | ISBN: 1441106855, 082642984X | PDF | 0,9 mb
For ten years, Calvin and Hobbes was one the world’s most beloved comic strips. And then, on the last day of 1995, the strip ended. Its mercurial and reclusive creator, Bill Watterson, not only finished the strip but withdrew entirely from public life. In Looking for Calvin and Hobbes, Nevin Martell sets out on a very personal odyssey to understand the life and career of the intensely private man behind Calvin and Hobbes. Martell talks to a wide range of artists and writers (including Dave Barry, Harvey Pekar, and Brad Bird) as well as some of Watterson’s closest friends and professional colleagues, and along the way reflects upon the nature of his own fandom and on the extraordinary legacy that Watterson left behind. This is as close as we’re ever likely to get to one of America’s most ingenious and intriguing figures – and it’s the fascinating story of an intrepid author’s search for him, too.

Free Download S. A. Lloyd, "Hobbes Today: Insights for the 21st Century"
English | ISBN: 1107000599 | 2012 | 353 pages | AZW3 | 687 KB
Hobbes Today: Insights for the 21st Century brings together an impressive group of political philosophers, legal theorists, and political scientists to investigate the many ways in which the work of Thomas Hobbes, the famed seventeenth century English philosopher, can illuminate the political and social problems we face today. Its essays demonstrate the contemporary relevance of Hobbes’s political thought on such issues as justice, human rights, public reason, international warfare, punishment, fiscal policy, and the design of positive law, among others. The volume’s contributors include both Hobbes specialists and philosophers bringing their expertise to consideration of Hobbes’s texts for the first time. This volume will stimulate renewed interest in Hobbes studies among a new generation of thinkers.

Free Download Laurie M. Johnson, "Thucydides, Hobbes, and the Interpretation of Realism"
English | ISBN: 1501747800 | 2020 | 276 pages | AZW3 | 516 KB
This original book has been consistently cited by scholars of international relations who explore the roots of realism in Thucydides’s history and the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. While acknowledging that neither thinker fits perfectly within the confines of international relations realism, Laurie M. Johnson proposes Hobbes’s philosophy is more closely aligned with it than Thucydides’s.

Free Download Hobbes, Locke, and Confusion’s Masterpiece: An Examination of Seventeenth-Century Political Philosophy By Ross Harrison
2002 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0521817005 | PDF | 4 MB
In this major study of the foundations of modern political theory, the eminent political philosopher Ross Harrison explains, analyzes, and criticizes the work of Hobbes, Locke and their contemporaries. He provides a complete account of the turbulent historical background that shaped the political, intellectual and religious content of this philosophy. The book explores the limits of political authority and the relationship of the legitimacy of government to the will of its people in non-technical, accessible prose.

Free Download Hobbes and the Paradoxes of Political Origins By Matthew H. Kramer
1997 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 0333683692 | PDF | 11 MB
This book expounds an analytical method that focuses on paradoxes – a method originally associated with deconstructive philosophy, but bearing little resemblance to the interpretive techniques that have come to be designated as ‘deconstruction’ in literary studies. The book then applies its paradox-focused method as it undertakes a sustained investigation of Thomas Hobbe’s political philosophy. Hobbes’s theory of the advent and purpose of government turns out to reveal the impossibility of the very developments which it portrays as indispensable.

Free Download Materialism From Hobbes to Locke
by Stewart Duncan
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0197613004 | 248 Pages | True ePUB | 0.59 MB