Reading Rawls and hearing Hobbes

Philosophical Forum

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 393-412

  Rhodes, Rosamond ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1111/1467-9191.00002     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. John Rawls, Political Liberalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993). [Hereafter, cited within the text as PL followed by the page number.]
2. John Gray, "Can We Agree to Disagree?" The New York Times Book Review, May 16, 1993, p. 35
3. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971)
4. Rawls's dissertation (Princeton University, 1950) mentions Hobbes's discussion of will and liberty (pp. 125, 181, fn. 2; pp. 190-191, fn. 4), and in comparison with Kant, he finds Hobbes an egoist (p. 169). A Theory of Justice mentions Hobbes just once. Political Liberalism mentions Hobbes three times
5. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, reprinted from the edition of 1651, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965. [Hereafter, cited within the text by chapter, paragraph number, original pagination.]
6. The details of Hobbes's account of Reason are discussed in Rosamond Rhodes, "Hobbes's unReasonable Fool," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, XXX, 2 (1992):93-102
7. John Deigh, "Reason and Ethics in Hobbes's Leviathan," Journal of the History of Philosophy, XXXIV, 1 (1996) and Bernard Gert, "Hobbes on Reason," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 82, 3 & 4 (September 2001): pp. 243-257. Deigh supports a similar view of Hobbesian reason and Gert argues against this kind of view, which he characterizes as an "instrumental account of reason."
8. David P. Gauthier, The Logic of Leviathan: The Moral and Political Theory of Thomas Hobbes (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969)
9. Jean Hampton, Hohbes and the Social Contract Tradition (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986)
10. Gregory S. Kavka, Hobbesian Moral and Political Theory (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986)
11. Rosamond Rhodes, "Creating Leviathan, Sovereign, and Civil Society," History of Philosophy Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 2 (April 1994): 177-190. This paper provides detailed accounts of Hobbes's view of the complex sequence of commitments that bind individuals to civil society and the sovereign as well as the obligations of the sovereign
12. David Gauthier, Jean Hampton, and even Gregory Kavka have argued for just the opposite reading of Hobbes. I am pressing the point that they are mistaken. David Gauthier, The Logic of Leviathan: The Moral and Political Theory of Thomas Hobbes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969)
13. Gregory Kavka, Hobbesian Moral and Political Theory (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986)
14. and Morals by Agreement (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986)
15. and Jean Hampton, Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986)
16. Rhodes 1992
17. Duncan Ivison, "The Secret History of Public Reason: Hobbes to Rawls," History of Political Thought 18, 1 (1997): 125-147
18. David Boonin-Vail, Thomas Hobbes and the Science of Moral Virtue (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994)
19. Peter Berkowitz, Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999)
20. Leo Strauss also sees that virtue plays an important role in Hobbes's political philosophy. Leo Strauss, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Its Genesis, translated by Elsa M. Sinclair (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Midway reprint, 1984)
21. Deborah Baumgold, Hobbes's Political Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)
22. Jody S. Kraus, The Limits of Hobbesian Contractarianism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993)
23. S. A. Lloyd, Ideals as Interests in Hobbes's Leviathan: The power of mind over matter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)
24. D. D. Raphael. Hobbes: Morals and Politics (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1977)
25. A. E. Taylor, "The Ethical Doctrine of Hobbes," Philosophy 13 (1938): 406-424
26. Howard Warrender, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: His Theory of Obligation (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957)
27. Rhodes 1994
28. T. M. Scanlon, What We Owe to Each Other (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998)
29. S. L. Hurley, Natural Reasons: Personality and Polity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997)