The elements of law, natural and politic : part I, Human nature, part II, De corpore politico ; with Three lives / Thomas Hobbes ; edited with an introduction by J.C.A. Gaskin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.

Contributor:

Gaskin, J. C. A. (John Charles Addison)

Series:

World's classics

Standardized Title:

Human nature

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Natural law.

Political science--Early works to 1800.

Political science.

Physical Description:

lv, 284 ; 19 cm.

Other Title:

De corpore politico.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

Summary:

Thomas Hobbes' timeless account of the human condition, first developed in The Elements of Law (1640), which comprises Human Nature and De Corpore Politico, is a direct product of the intellectual and political strife of the seventeenth century. His analysis of the war between the individual and the group lays out the essential strands of his moral and political philosophy later made famous in Leviathan. This first ever complete paperback edition of Human Nature and De Corpore Politico is also supplemented by chapters from Hobbes' later work De Corpore and "The Three Lives," never before published together in English.

Notes:

This work was originally published in 1650 as two separate books, Human nature, and De corpore politico. Human nature contained the first 13 chapters, De Corpore politico contained chapters 14 thru 19 of the first work, and chapters 20 thru 29. The present edition considers chapters 1 thru 19 as part 1, Human nature, and chapters 20 thru 29 as part 2, De corpore politico.

Included in this work are chapters from Hobbes' De corpore, translations of His Verse life, and Prose life, and an abstract of John Aubrey's Brief life.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679. De corpore politico. 1994.

ISBN:

0192831216 :

OCLC:

29361133