Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was born in Malmesbury. Entering Magdalen Hall, Oxford, in 1603, he took his degree in 1608 and became tutor to the eldest son of Lord Cavendish of Hardwick, afterwards the Earl of Devonshire; his connection with this family was life-long. His first interest was in the classics, and his first published work a translation of Thucydides, in 1628. An interest in science and philosophy soon developed, heightened by extended travels in Europe in 1629-31 and 1634-37. This led to his great project of a political science. His first verson of this, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic, was privately circulated in 1640, when Parliament was hotly disputing the king’s powers, and Hobbes fled to Paris, where he stayed for eleven years.
A second version, De Cive, was published in 1642, and the third, Leviathan—the crowning achievement of his political science—in 1651. It was so influential that it came under widespread attack and was in danger of condemnation by the House of Commons. Hobbes perforce lived quietly and published little more on political matters. At the age of eighty-four he composed an autobiography in Latin verse, and within the next three years translated the whole of Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad.
发表于2025-03-30
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一、霍布斯的自由主义者争论 霍布斯《利维坦》的主题,长期被简化为国家机器是因为“一切人反对一切人”才不得已诞生的,又由于霍布斯强调了人受到本能里竞争、荣誉、猜疑(p94)等激情的驱使而斗争,似乎他就成为了个人主义甚至自由主义的代言人(比如本书的一些短评)。 如今...
评分这次抗疫,引发全国以举国之力,众志成城,发挥了体制优势。看到武汉方舱病床上的小伙子,看福山的“政治秩序的起源”。其实,想了解国家体制的起源,他应该看这本书-利维坦。 该书在本科时,是政治哲学必读书。但真正读懂,是在毕业以后。利维坦是圣经里的巨大怪物,作者霍布...
评分一、霍布斯的自由主义者争论 霍布斯《利维坦》的主题,长期被简化为国家机器是因为“一切人反对一切人”才不得已诞生的,又由于霍布斯强调了人受到本能里竞争、荣誉、猜疑(p94)等激情的驱使而斗争,似乎他就成为了个人主义甚至自由主义的代言人(比如本书的一些短评)。 如今...
评分霍布斯的论证非常有逻辑,注意到了很多可能反驳的地方,值得学习。 1.自然状态。(十三章) 霍布斯对自然状态的论证是从人性角度出发的,他认为人有三种欲望,使之争斗:竞争、猜忌、荣誉。 分别代表着利益获得、利益损失(安全)、心理优越。 霍布斯自然状态的前提假设是平等...
评分霍布斯的逻辑 《利维坦》这本书是霍布斯描述的一种关于“国家”的构想。他的逻辑是:1、基于人性,如果没有强力的约束,人类一定会陷入无休止的暴力内乱;2、人们当然会遵循自然法,其中第二自然法似乎特别重要:“在别人也愿意这样做的条件下,当一个人为了和平与自卫的目的认...
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“During the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called Warre”
Written during the turmoil of the English Civil War, Leviathan is an ambitious and highly original work of political philosophy. Claiming that man’s essential nature is competitive and selfish, Hobbes formulates the case for a powerful sovereign—or “Leviathan”—to enforce peace and the law, substituting security for the anarchic freedom he believed human beings would otherwise experience. This worldview shocked many of Hobbes’s contemporaries, and his work was publicly burnt for sedition and blasphemy when it was first published. But in his rejection of Aristotle’s view of man as a naturally social being, and in his painstaking analysis of the ways in which society can and should function, Hobbes opened up a whole new world of political science.
Based on the original 1651 text, this edition incorporates Hobbes’s own corrections, while also retaining the original spelling and punctuation, to read with vividness and clarity. C. B. Macpherson’s introduction elucidates one of the most fascinating works of modern philosophy for the general reader.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
为了搞掉教会的权势,霍布斯不惜一切手段构成这个绝对奇异绝对反常识的绝对国家主义。甚至抛出了只要有faith in Jesus and obedience to God,圣经怎么解读不重要的激进论断。从他几乎不可能实现的政治体系中(当今中国maybe?),也展露出很多延续到今天的政治和法律理念。很带劲的书!
评分读了这么半天,压根就没注意书名音译过来就是利维坦…
评分And how is he desperate yet hopeful about human condition all the times, how his agony and conflicts show from these letters.
评分I authorise and give up my right of governing myself to this man, or to this assembly of men, on this condition; that thou give up, thy right to him, and authorise all his actions in like manner.
评分And how is he desperate yet hopeful about human condition all the times, how his agony and conflicts show from these letters.
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