To The Right Honourable The Lords And Commons Assembled In The High Court Of Parliament Of England Sitting At Westminster The Humble Petition Of Divers Well Affected Citizens Of The City Of London And Parts Adjacent Together With A Paper Annexed Of Their Humble Desires For The Allaying And Removall Of The Jealousies And Discontents The Visible Causes Of Our Sad Divisions Etc Ms Note

Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226345444
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Behemoth Or The Long Parliament written by Thomas Hobbes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990-08-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behemoth, or The Long Parliament is essential to any reader interested in the historical context of the thought of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). In De Cive (1642) and Leviathan (1651), the great political philosopher had developed an analytical framework for discussing sedition, rebellion, and the breakdown of authority. Behemoth, completed around 1668 and not published until after Hobbe's death, represents the systematic application of this framework to the English Civil War. In his insightful and substantial Introduction, Stephen Holmes examines the major themes and implications of Behemoth in Hobbes's system of thought. Holmes notes that a fresh consideration of Behemoth dispels persistent misreadings of Hobbes, including the idea that man is motivated solely by a desire for self-preservation. Behemoth, which is cast as a series of dialogues between a teacher and his pupil, locates the principal cause of the Civil War less in economic interests than in the stubborn irrationality of key actors. It also shows more vividly than any of Hobbe's other works the importance of religion in his theories of human nature and behavior.