“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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32. 把hobbes放在他写作的时空语境下就丝毫不难理解全书的核心思想（why commonwealth （through social contract），why Christian commonwealth）及其形成原因（17世纪uk，anglicanism）了。任何作品都是特定时代环境的产物，但仍然有个体独特视角、偏性的体现，能够自圆其说已是成就不小啦。而对于读者来说，有趣之处 我想 或许...32. 把hobbes放在他写作的时空语境下就丝毫不难理解全书的核心思想（why commonwealth （through social contract），why Christian commonwealth）及其形成原因（17世纪uk，anglicanism）了。任何作品都是特定时代环境的产物，但仍然有个体独特视角、偏性的体现，能够自圆其说已是成就不小啦。而对于读者来说，有趣之处 我想 或许 时而就在于discover the purpose of the writing, examine how the historical context contribute to its formation and how he/she manages to achieve that aim吧？(展开)
谈谈霍布斯《利维坦》的几种汉译本 段保良 《利维坦》（Leviathan）是英国哲学家托马斯·霍布斯（Thomas Hobbes，1588－1679）于1651年出版的一本著作，全名为《利维坦，或一个政教国家的质料、形式和权力》（Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Eccl...
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14 有用 别叫我和桑 2019-01-17 10:12:27
给5星不是因为我同意他的观点，而是从他那个时代来看这本书，真是大胆、创新。不过十七世纪的英语真是好累啊朋友。Also, did Mao read this? 可怕。
0 有用 momo 2024-03-20 07:27:46 中国香港
差不多得了..
0 有用 ca7thy 2016-09-28 11:03:23
并没有读完整本 只读了13 14 17 18 21…
3 有用 siyu 2015-03-25 22:11:55
5 Of Reason and Science. 11 Of the Difference of Manners. 13 Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity, and Misery. 14 Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts.
0 有用 Noice. 2020-07-06 13:34:58
性本恶
0 有用 bagins 2024-05-09 15:06:31 上海
听
0 有用 momo 2024-03-20 07:27:46 中国香港
差不多得了..
0 有用 Bidasari 2024-01-23 07:08:11 美国
太好了啊……
0 有用 子非鱼 2023-05-04 00:28:58 美国
Men have no pleasure in keeping company and they fight each other for Gain, Safety and Glory.
0 有用 hyj 2022-07-30 17:12:51
32. 把hobbes放在他写作的时空语境下就丝毫不难理解全书的核心思想（why commonwealth （through social contract），why Christian commonwealth）及其形成原因（17世纪uk，anglicanism）了。任何作品都是特定时代环境的产物，但仍然有个体独特视角、偏性的体现，能够自圆其说已是成就不小啦。而对于读者来说，有趣之处 我想 或许... 32. 把hobbes放在他写作的时空语境下就丝毫不难理解全书的核心思想（why commonwealth （through social contract），why Christian commonwealth）及其形成原因（17世纪uk，anglicanism）了。任何作品都是特定时代环境的产物，但仍然有个体独特视角、偏性的体现，能够自圆其说已是成就不小啦。而对于读者来说，有趣之处 我想 或许 时而就在于discover the purpose of the writing, examine how the historical context contribute to its formation and how he/she manages to achieve that aim吧？ (展开)