State of Nature or Eden?
Thomas Hobbes and His Contemporaries on the Natural Condition of Human Beings
1st Edition
Published on 24. January 2005
262 pages
978-1-58046-645-5 (ISBN)
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State of Nature or Eden? Thomas Hobbes and his Contemporaries on the Natural Condition of Human Beings aims to explain how Hobbes's state of nature was understood by a contemporary readership, whose most important referencepoint for such a condition was the original condition of human beings at the creation, in other words in Eden.
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State of Nature or Eden?
Thomas Hobbes and His Contemporaries on the Natural Condition of Human Beings
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Content
Introduction
Good and Evil
Equality and Unsociability
The War of All Against All
The Right and Law of Nature
The Creation of Society
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Good and Evil
Equality and Unsociability
The War of All Against All
The Right and Law of Nature
The Creation of Society
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
