Hobbes Today: Insights for the 21st Century 9780521169783, 052116978X, 978-1-107-00059-9

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Hobbes Today: Insights for the 21st Century
9780521169783, 052116978X, 978-1-107-00059-9

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Lloyd
S. A

Table of contents :
Content: Editor's introduction S. A. Lloyd
Part I. Application to Problems of Governmental Powers and their Limits: 1. Supporting a normative order through Hobbesian reasoning Joshua Cohen
2. A note on Hobbesian lessons on bipartisanship David Braybrooke
3. Hobbes' theory of rights: a new application Eleanor Curran
4. Hobbesian legal reasoning and the problem of wicked laws Claire Finkelstein
5. Hobbesian equality Kinch Hoekstra
6. The representation of Hobbesian sovereignty: Leviathan as mythology Arash Abizadeh
Part II. Application to Civil Society and Domestic Institutions: 7. On public and private conscience: public reason and religious convictions in Leviathan G. F. Gaus
8. 'Thrown amongst many': Hobbes on taxation and fiscal policy Neil McArthur
9. The imperfect legitimacy of punishment Alice Ristroph
10. In harm's way: Hobbes on the duty to fight for one's country Susanne Sreedhar
11. Confronting jihad: a defect in the Hobbesian educational strategy Maryam Qudrat
Part III. Application to Problems of Global Scope: 12. Hobbesian realism in international relations: a reappraisal Chris Naticchia
12. Hobbesian assurance problems and global justice Aaron James
13. International relations, world government, and the ethics of war: a Hobbesian perspective S. A. Lloyd
14. Hobbesian defenses of orthodox just war theory Jeff McMahan
15. Hobbes and human rights Michael Green.

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