TY  - GEN
T1  - Hobbes and the law of nature
A1  - Zagorin, Perez
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2009
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn659561152
AB  - Thomas Hobbes remains one of the most challenging and controversial of early modern philosophers, and debates persist about the interpretation of many of his ideas, particularly his views about natural law and natural right. In this book, Perez Zagorin argues that these two concepts are the twin foundations of the entire structure of Hobbes's moral and political thought. Zagorin clears up numerous misconceptions about Hobbes and his relation to earlier natural law thinkers, in particular Hugo Grotius, and he reasserts the often overlooked role of the Hobbesian law of nature as a moral standard from which even sovereign power is not immune. Because Hobbes is commonly thought to be primarily a theorist of sovereignty, political absolutism, and unitary state power, the significance of his moral philosophy is often underestimated and widely assumed to depend entirely on individual self-interest. Zagorin reveals Hobbes's originality as a moral philosopher and his importance as a thinker who subverted and transformed the idea of natural law. --From publisher's description.
OP  - 177
CN  - JC153.H66 Z34 2009eb
SN  - 9781400832026
SN  - 1400832020
SN  - 9786612458637
SN  - 6612458631
SN  - 9780691139807
SN  - 0691139806
SN  - 1282458639
SN  - 9781282458635
KW  - Hobbes, Thomas, : 1588-1679.
KW  - Hobbes, Thomas, : 1588-1679
KW  - Hobbes, Thomas.
KW  - Natural law.
KW  - Droit naturel.
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : Political.
KW  - Natural law
KW  - Naturrecht
ER  -