Hobbes on logic, or how to deal with Aristotle's legacy -- Hobbes on language : propositions, truth, and absurdity -- Hobbe's mathematical thought -- Natural philosophy in seventeenth-century context -- Hobbes on the foundations of natural philosophy -- The most curious of sciences : Hobbe's optics -- Hobbes on liberty, action, and free will -- Reason, deliberation, and the passions -- The state of nature -- Hobbes on the family -- Natural law -- Political obligation -- Authorization and representation in Hobbe's Leviathan -- Hobbes (and Austin, and Aquinas) on law as command of the sovereign -- The sovereign -- Hobbes and absolutism -- Sovereign jurisdiction, territorial rights, and membership in Hobbes -- Hobbes and the social control of unsociability -- Hobbes and religion without theology -- Hobbes, conscience, and Christianity -- Christianity and civil religion in Hobbes's Leviathan -- Thomas Hobbes's ecclesiastical history -- Hobbes's Thucydides -- Making history : the politics of Hobbes's Behemoth -- Hobbes on the nature and scope of poetry -- Hobbes and paradox.
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