A Companion to Hobbes

Edited by Yitzhak Melamed

76. A Companion to Hobbes

Edited by Marcus P. Adams

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Marcus P. Adams

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2 Blackwell Companions to Philosophy

3 Title Page

4 Copyright

5 Notes on Contributors

6 Introduction: The Presentation and Structure of Thomas Hobbes’s Philosophy

7 Abbreviations for Citations to Hobbes’s Works

8 Part I: First Philosophy, Mathematics, and Natural Philosophy Chapter 1: Hobbes’s Unified Method for Scientia Chapter 2: The Stoic Roots of Hobbes’s Natural Philosophy and First Philosophy Chapter 3: Hobbesian Mathematics and the Dispute with Wallis Chapter 4: Explanations in Hobbes’s Optics and Natural Philosophy

9 Part II: Human Nature and Morality Chapter 5: “A Most Useful Economy”: Hobbes on Linguistic Meaning and Understanding Chapter 6: Hobbes’s Theory of the Good: Felicity by Anticipatory Pleasure Chapter 7: In search of “A Constant Civill Amity”: Hobbes on Friendship and Sociability Chapter 8: Hobbes on Power and Gender Relations Chapter 9: The State of Nature as a Continuum Concept Chapter 10: Hobbes’s Minimalist Moral Theory

10 Part III: Civil Philosophy Chapter 11: Hobbesian Persons and Representation Chapter 12: Hobbes’s Account of Authorizing a Sovereign Chapter 13: The Strength and Significance of Subjects’ Rights in Leviathan Chapter 14: Hobbes on Sovereignty and Its Strains Chapter 15: Hobbes on International Ethics

11 Part IV: Religion Chapter 16: Against Philosophical Darkness: A Political Conception of Enlightenment Chapter 17: Hobbes on Submission to God Chapter 18: Thomas Hobbes and the Christian Commonwealth Chapter 19: Hobbes and Toleration Chapter 20: Hobbes, Rome’s Enemy Chapter 21: Hobbes and the Papal Monarchy

12 Part V: Controversies and Reception Chapter 22: Body and Space in Hobbes and Descartes Chapter 23: Hobbes’s Mechanical Philosophy and Its English Critics Chapter 24: Cudworth as a Critic of Hobbes Chapter 25: Cavendish and Hobbes on Causation Chapter 26: Striving, Happiness, and the Good: Spinoza as Follower and Critic of Hobbes Chapter 27: Hobbes and Astell on War and Peace Chapter 28: Hobbes and Hume on Human Nature: “Much of a Dispute of Words?” Chapter 29: He Shows “Genius” and Is “More Useful than Pufendorf”: Kant’s Reception of Hobbes Chapter 30: Catharine Macaulay and the Reception of Hobbes During the Eighteenth Century

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14 End User License Agreement

1 Chapter 0Figure I.1 The order of presentation in Hobbes’s Philosophy: The Table of Leviathan 9 compared to the Elements of Philosophy trilogy.

2 Chapter 3Figure 3.1 Cavalieri’s indivisibles.

3 Chapter 4Figure 4.1 Hierarchy of the parts of philosophy.Figure 4.2 Orders of knowing to arrive at civil philosophy.Figure 4.3 Diagram from De homine II.

4 Chapter 9Figure 9.1 Continuum of permissible private judgment.Figure 9.2 Scope for effective personal agency mapped onto the continuum of permissible private judgment.

5 Chapter 12Figure 12.1 The one-step third-party beneficiary account.Figure 12.2 The two-step account.

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