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Book SynopsisOffers comprehensive treatment of Thomas Hobbes's thought, providing readers withdifferent ways of understanding Hobbes as a systematic philosopher As one of the founders of modern political philosophy,Thomas Hobbes is best known forhisideasregarding the nature of legitimate government and the necessity of society submitting to the absolute authority of sovereign power. Yet Hobbesproduced a wide range of writings,from translations of texts by Homer and Thucydides, to interpretations of Biblical books, to works devoted togeometry, optics,morality,and religion.Hobbes viewed himself aspresentingaunified method for theoretical and practical sciencean interconnectedsystem of philosophythat providesmany entry points into his thought. A Companion to Hobbesisanexpertly curatedcollection of essaysoffering close textualengagementwiththe thought of Thomas Hobbesin his major workswhile probinghisideasregarding natural philosophy, mathematics, human nature, civil philosophy, religion, and more.TheC
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii
Introduction: The Presentation and Structure of Thomas Hobbes's Philosophy 1
Marcus P. Adams
Abbreviations for Citations to Hobbes's Works 20
Part I First Philosophy, Mathematics, and Natural Philosophy 23
1 Hobbes's Unified Method for Scientia 25
Helen Hattab
2 The Stoic Roots of Hobbes's Natural Philosophy and First Philosophy 45
Geoffrey Gorham
3 Hobbesian Mathematics and the Dispute with Wallis 57
Douglas Jesseph
4 Explanations in Hobbes's Optics and Natural Philosophy 75
Marcus P. Adams
Part II Human Nature and Morality 91
5 "A Most Useful Economy": Hobbes on Linguistic Meaning and Understanding 93
R. W. McIntyre
6 Hobbes’s Theory of the Good: Felicity by Anticipatory Pleasure 109
Arash Abizadeh
7 In search of "A Constant Civill Amity": Hobbes on Friendship and Sociability 125
Gabriella Slomp
8 Hobbes on Power and Gender Relations 139
Sandra Leonie Field
9 The State of Nature as a Continuum Concept 156
S. A. Lloyd
10 Hobbes's Minimalist Moral Theory 171
Michael J. Green
Part III Civil Philosophy 185
11 Hobbesian Persons and Representation 187
Mónica Brito Vieira
12 Hobbes's Account of Authorizing a Sovereign 203
Rosamond Rhodes
13 The Strength and Significance of Subjects' Rights in Leviathan 221
Eleanor Curran
14 Hobbes on Sovereignty and Its Strains 236
Tom Sorell
15 Hobbes on International Ethics 252
Johan Olsthoorn
Part IV Religion 269
16 Against Philosophical Darkness: A Political Conception of Enlightenment 271
Luc Foisneau
17 Hobbes on Submission to God 287
Michael Byron
18 Thomas Hobbes and the Christian Commonwealth 303
Jeffrey Collins
19 Hobbes and Toleration 318
Johann Sommerville
20 Hobbes, Rome's Enemy 332
Franck Lessay
21 Hobbes and the Papal Monarchy 348
Patricia Springborg
Part V Controversies and Reception 365
22 Body and Space in Hobbes and Descartes 367
Edward Slowik
23 Hobbes's Mechanical Philosophy and Its English Critics 381
John Henry
24 Cudworth as a Critic of Hobbes 398
Stewart Duncan
25 Cavendish and Hobbes on Causation 413
Marcy P. Lascano
26 Striving, Happiness, and the Good: Spinoza as Follower and Critic of Hobbes 431
Justin Steinberg
27 Hobbes and Astell on War and Peace 448
Jacqueline Broad
28 Hobbes and Hume on Human Nature: "Much of a Dispute of Words?" 463
Alexandra Chadwick
29 He Shows "Genius" and Is "More Useful than Pufendorf": Kant's Reception of Hobbes 478
Howard Williams
30 Catharine Macaulay and the Reception of Hobbes During the Eighteenth Century 492
Karen Green
Index 505
