Hobbes and Political Contractarianism - Selected Writings

This book presents a selection of David Gauthier's writings on Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and the theory of political contractarianism. The essays cover topics including Hobbes on law, social contract theory, and public reason.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Part I. Hobbes


• 1: Hobbes s Social Contract (1990, longer version)


• 2: Taming Leviathan (1987)


• 3: Hobbes on Demonstration and Construction (1997)


• 4: Thomas Hobbes and the Contractarian Theory of Law (1990)


• 5: Hobbes: The Laws of Nature (2001)


• 6: Hobbes on Sovereign Authority: How the Right of Nature Becomes Sovereign Right (2018)


• 7: The True and Only Moral Philosophy: A Close Reading of Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Chapters 13 15 (unpublished)


• 8: Authors and Actors (unpublished)


• Appendix: De Cive v. leviathan


• Part II. The Social Contract


• 9: Political Contractarianism (1997, longer version)


• 10: Public Reason (1994)


• 11: The Best of Times (Universality, Individuality, and Democracy) (1999)


• 12: A Society of Individuals (2016)


• Additional Writings on Related Topics

About the author

David Gauthier is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. He previously held postions at the University of Toronto, and has held visiting appointments at UCLA, UC Berkeley, Princeton, UC Irvine, and the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Practical Reasoning: The Structure and Foundations of Prudential and Moral Arguments and their Exemplification in Discourse (OUP, 1963), The Logic of Leviathan: The Moral and Political Theory of Thomas Hobbes (OUP 1969), Morals by Agreement (OUP, 1986), Moral Dealing: Contract, Ethics, and Reason (Cornell, 1990), and Rousseau: The Sentiment of Existence (Cambridge, 2006).

Summary

This book presents a selection of David Gauthier's writings on Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and the theory of political contractarianism. The essays cover topics including Hobbes on law, social contract theory, and public reason.

Product details

• Authors: David Gauthier, David (Distinguished Service Professor E Gauthier, Christopher Morris
• Assisted by: Susan Dimock (Editor), Dimock Susan (Editor), Claire Finkelstein (Editor), Finkelstein Claire (Editor), Christopher W. Morris (Editor), Morris Christopher W. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9780192843005
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284300-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought