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Poli 212 Western Political
Philosophy Professor Sammy Basu |
Introduction to Hobbes and Leviathan |
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Thomas
Hobbes (1588-1679)
Context
mid-seventeenth
century Europe
Nation-states
Reformation
Enlightenment v
Medieval Scholasticism
Scientific
revolution
Human
sciences
Agrarian to
Mercantile and Capitalist economies
mid-seventeenth
century England
The state of Monarchie is the supremest thing
vpon earth: for Kings are not onely Gods Lieutenants vpon earth, and sit vpon
Gods throne, but euen by God himselfe they are called Gods.
-
James I, in a Speech to the Lords and Commons of Parliament at Whitehall, 21
March, 1609.
A King is a thing men have made for their own
sakes, for quietness' sake.
-
John Selden, Table Talk (1696
edition)
good brief
intro and timelines:
http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/biog/charles1.htm
Charles
(Stuart) I
Archbishop
William Laud
Archbishops Trial
John
Lilburne. A Leveller
Trial of Charles Stuart
Oliver
Cromwell
Cromwell
standing at hell-mouth (1649)
Cromwell trying
to be a king
English Civil
Wars, or English Revolution
http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/361/361-20.htm
http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/361/361-24.htm
http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/361/361-25.htm
http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/361/361-26.htm
http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/361/361-27.htm
http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/361/361-28.htm
http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/361/361-29.htm
also
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A622937
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A523450
Author:
Thomas Hobbes
http://cfs.unipv.it/Gallpics/classici/Hobbes2fs.htm
http://home.clara.net/kbooks/archives/highporthobbes.htm
Life
http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/hobbes.htm
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/hobbes.html
http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/hobb.htm
A Brief Life of Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679 by John
Aubrey
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/hobbes/hobbes_life.html
Galileo Galilei
Gabriel
Harvey Engraving from groundbreaking treatise by English
physician and anatomist William Harvey revealing his discovery of the
circulation of blood. Shown here is flow of blood through the veins of the
lower arm.
Text
Leviathan,
or The Matter, Forme, & Power
of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and
Civill [May 1651].
'discourse of Common-wealth,'
Frontispiece
or
http://www.willamette.edu/~sbasu/poli212/leviathan/LeviathanFrontispiece.htm
other
HobbesÕ frontispieces
http://www2.dds.unibo.it/didattica/materiali%20didattici/De%20Benedictis%202004/Hobbes.htm
Online version of text
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/hobbes/leviathan-contents.html
ÔLeviathanÕ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan
Job
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Job
http://wikisource.org/wiki/Bible%2C_English%2C_King_James%2C_Job
The
Hortus Deliciarum (12th c.
manuscript) is a large compilation of texts from Biblical, traditional and
theological sources to treat the history of the world from creation to its
final consummation at the end of time. This compilation made by Herrad, abbess
of Hohenbourg in Alsace between 1176-1196, also includes numerous illustrations
of high quality that explain the text and entertain the reader. The following
excerpts from the creation cycle present texts and illustrations relating to
the Biblical creation story and the Life
of Adam and Eve.
'His
strong scales are his pride,
Shut
up as with a tight seal.
One
is so near to another
That
no air can come between them.
They
are joined one to another;
They
clasp each other and cannot be separated.
His
sneezes flash forth light,
And
his eyes are like
the
eyelids of the morning.
Out
of his mouth go burning torches;
Sparks
of fire leap forth.
Out
of his nostrils smoke goes forth
As
from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
His
breath kindles coals,
And
a flame goes forth from his mouth.
In
his neck lodges strength,
And
dismay leaps before him.
The
folds of his flesh are joined together,
Firm
on him and immovable.
His
heart is as hard as a stone,
Even
as hard as a lower millstone.
When
he raises himself up, the mighty fear;
Because
of the crashing they are bewildered.
The
sword that reaches him cannot avail,
Nor
the spear, the dart or the javelin.
He
regards iron as straw, Bronze as rotten wood.
The
arrow cannot make him flee;
Slingstones
are turned into stubble for him.
Clubs
are regarded as stubble;
He
laughs at the rattling of the javelin.
His
underparts are like sharp potsherds;
He
spreads out like a threshing sledge on the mire.
He
makes the depths boil like a pot;
He
makes the sea like a jar of ointment.
Behind
him he makes a wake to shine;
One
would think the deep to be gray-haired.
Nothing
on earth is like him,
One
made without fear.
He
looks on everything that is high;
He
is king over all the sons of pride.'
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Job 41:15-32
contemporary
http://www.gailgastfield.com/job/job.htm
http://www.gailgastfield.com/job/jobc15.jpg
http://www.jeduthun.biz/Books/Colorbk/leviathan_lg.gif
modern
http://www.nuridsany.hu/alkotasok/leviathan.html
God of war gaming
http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=627
