Thucydides, Hobbes, and the Interpretation of Realism Laurie M. Johnson

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Laurie M., author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.

Thucydides.

Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War.

History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides).

Political science--Philosophy.

Philosophical anthropology.

Historiography.

Political science--Philosophy--History.

Political science.

Philosophical anthropology--History.

Greece.

Greece--History--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C--Historiography.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

DeKalb, Ill. : Northern Illinois University Press, 1993

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This original book has been consistently cited by scholars of international relations who explore the roots of realism in Thucydides's history and the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. While acknowledging that neither thinker fits perfectly within the confines of international relations realism, Laurie M. Johnson proposes Hobbes's philosophy is more closely aligned with it than Thucydides's.

Contents:

Ch. 1. Human Nature. Hobbes. Thucydides. A Comparison of Hobbes and Thucydides on Human Nature

Ch. 2. Justice. Hobbes. Thucydides. A Comparison of Hobbes and Thucydides on Justice

Ch. 3. Leadership and Regimes. Hobbes. Thucydides. A Comparison of Hobbes and Thucydides on Leadership and Regimes. The Philosophic Roots of Realism and Neorealism. The Use and Abuse of Thucydides. An Alternative View of Thucydides. The Thucydidean Scholar

Notes:

Issued also as theauthor's thesis (Ph. D.), Northern Illinois University, 1990

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501747816

1501747819

9781501747823

1501747827

OCLC:

1130041234