Hobbes on the evil of death

Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 36-61

  Murphy, Mark C ^a  

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DOI: 10.1515/agph.2000.82.1.36     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Bernard Gert, "Hobbes and Psychological Egoism", Journal of the History of Ideas 28 (1967), pp. 503-520
2. A. P. Martinich, The Two Gods of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes on Religion and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1992), esp. pp. 19-67, pp. 339-353
3. But see Edwin Curley, "'I Durst Not Write So Boldly': How to Read Hobbes's Theological-Political Treatise", in Hobbes e Spinoza, Scienza e Politica, ed. Daniela Bostrenghi (Bibliopolis, 1992), pp. 497-593
4. See S. A. Lloyd, Ideals as Interests in Hobbes's Leviathan: The Power of Mind over Matter (Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 36 f.
5. Gregory S. Kavka, Hobbesian Moral and Political Theory (Princeton University Press, 1986), pp. 80-82
6. F. S. McNeilly, The Anatomy of Leviathan (MacMillan, 1968), pp. 178-182
7. Edwin Curley, "Reflections on Hobbes: Recent Work on his Moral and Political Philosophy", Journal of Philosophical Research 15 (1989-90), pp. 169-250, pp. 174 f
8. David Boonin-Vail, Thomas Hobbes and the Science of Moral Virtue (Cambridge University Press, 1994)
9. For Boonin-Vail's defense of a version of the standard view, see pp. 50-58
10. See my "Was Hobbes a Legal Positivist", Ethics 105 (1995), pp. 845-873
11. and "Deviant Uses of 'Obligation' in Hobbes' Leviathan", History of Philosophy Quarterly 11 (1994), pp. 283-294
12. Howard Warrender, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: His Theory of Obligation (Clarendon Press, 1957), pp. 92 f
13. See Bernard Gert, "Introduction" to Thomas Hobbes, Man and Citizen (Peter Smith, 1978), pp. 3-32
14. Andrew Alexandra, "'All Men Agree on This ...': Hobbes on the Fear of Death and the Way to Peace", History of Philosophy Quaraterly 6 (1989), pp. 37-55, p. 39
15. The Elements of Law, printed as Human Nature and De Corpore Politico, ed. J. C. A. Gaskin (Oxford University Press, 1994), chapter xiv, section 6, p. 79. Hereafter cited as EL
16. De Cive: The English Version, ed. Howard Warrender (Clarendon Press, 1983), chapter i, section 7, p. 47. Hereafter cited as DC
17. De Homine, in Man and Citizen, chapter xi, section 6, p. 48. Hereafter cited as DH
18. J. W. N. Watkins, Hobbes's System of Ideas (Hutchinson, 1973), pp. 81 f
19. For the concept of a primary good, see John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Harvard University Press, 1971), p. 62
20. Leo Strauss, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Genesis, trans. Elsa M. Sinclair (Clarendon Press, 1936), p. 15
21. For just one contemporary account of an agent's good that incorporates both prepositional knowledge and vividness of representation, see Peter Railton, "Facts and Values", Philosophical Topics 14 (1986), pp. 5-31, p. 30
22. See my "Hobbes' Shortsightedness Account of Conflict", Southern Journal of Philosophy 31 (1993), pp. 239-253
23. Hume is even more explicit and insistent on this point: see A Treatise of Human Nature, ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge, rev. P. H. Nidditch (Oxford University Press, 1978), book II, part iii, section 7, pp. 427-432
24. Thomas Hobbes, A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England, ed. Joseph Cropsey (University of Chicago Press, 1971), pp. 116 f
25. Behemoth, ed. Ferdinand Tönnies (University of Chicago Press, 1990), p. 51. I am grateful to an anonymous referee at the Archiv who suggested that I note this passage
26. and Gauthier, The Logic of Leviathan (Oxford University Press, 1969)
27. and "Hobbes's Social Contract", in G. A. J. Rogers and Alan Ryan, ed., Perspectives on Thomas Hobbes (Clarendon Press, 1988), pp. 125-152