“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 “Leviat...
“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.
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作者简介
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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 inte...
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.
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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！
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0 有用 Tacitus 2018-01-31 04:59:33
就读过的章节言，感觉霍布斯最精彩，也似乎最可信的部分，在于他用一种'工具理性'为国家的正当性作辩护—假如我们要走出互相提防的囚徒困境，那么便要设立一个国家；人性是否'本恶'并非重点，重点是自然状态下我们没有理由相信他人的善意—这似乎确实是一个可以被普遍接受的促使我们设立国家的理由。但令我难以信服的是，'工具理性'是否足以支撑'利维坦'的结构及(出于同样的自利条件)臣民应无条件服从统治的论证？霍布斯... 就读过的章节言，感觉霍布斯最精彩，也似乎最可信的部分，在于他用一种'工具理性'为国家的正当性作辩护—假如我们要走出互相提防的囚徒困境，那么便要设立一个国家；人性是否'本恶'并非重点，重点是自然状态下我们没有理由相信他人的善意—这似乎确实是一个可以被普遍接受的促使我们设立国家的理由。但令我难以信服的是，'工具理性'是否足以支撑'利维坦'的结构及(出于同样的自利条件)臣民应无条件服从统治的论证？霍布斯似乎还需要一系列的经验性主张都成立才能构成利维坦建立之后我们无条件服从的理由(否则就会重回自然状态！)，而这些主张是否成立需要实证研究支持(而很多根据我们已有的经验证明是错误的)—这大概也是那些'反直觉'的论证不那么精彩的原因。从中可以体会到用'工具理性'作论证进路的优点和局限 (展开)
0 有用 Keto 2013-09-25 14:29:32
MacPherson的导言有点意思
8 有用 Caesura 2010-10-08 11:11:59
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！
0 有用 Curious George 2010-09-17 12:56:34
两天读完英文版利维坦以及论人类不平等的起源和基础第一部分。这在豆瓣是什么水平？
0 有用 momo 2024-03-20 07:27:46 中国香港
差不多得了..