Hobbes on laughter

Philosophical Quarterly

Volumn 51, Issue 202, 2001, Pages 29-40

  Ewin, R E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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EID: 55649111726     PISSN: 00318094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9213.00212     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Hobbes, Leviathan, ed. Richard Tuck (Cambridge UP, 1991), p. 43
2. O. Lawson-Dick (ed.), Aubrey's Brief Lives (Reading: Seeker & Warburg, 1992), p. 154
3. Hobbes, The Elements of Law (EL), ed. F. Tonnies (London: Cass & Co., 1969), p. 41
4. Hobbes, De Homine (DH), in B. Gert (ed.), Man and Citizen (Brighton: Harvester, 1972), p. 59. This book also contains the edition of De Cive (DC) which I have used
5. D. Heyd, 'The Place of Laughter in Hobbes' Theory of the Emotions', Journal of the History of Ideas, 43 (1982), pp. 285-95
6. Francis Hutcheson, 'Reflections on Laughter', in Philosophical Writings, ed. R.S. Downie (London: Dent, 1994)
7. J.W.N. Watkins, Hobbes' System of Ideas (London: Hutchinson, 1965), pp. 111-12
8. J. Hampton, Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition (Cambridge UP, 1986), p. 15
9. For similar claims, see Watkins, pp. 166-8
10. D. Gauthier, The Logic of Leviathan (Oxford UP, 1969), pp. 23-4
11. H. Warrender, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), p. 91
12. Leviathan, p. 41, where he also clearly distinguishes this love from lust
13. Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn (London: Dent, 1943), p. 309
14. EL, p. 41
15. In Leviathan (p. 43) he says that the passion is sudden glory, but this is his description of the passion rather than the identification of it by use of the name by which it is known in English
16. Molesworth (ed.), The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, Vol. VI (London: John Bohn, 1840), p. 461