Thomas Hobbes: Summarized Classics: SUMMARIZED CLASSICS

By MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

The greatest thinkers of humanity at your fingertips, in minutes! 
If you thought you would never be able to understand the essential classic authors, you were wrong! 
With our "Summarized Classics" collection, you will understand the main ideas of the most important thinkers in a very short time and with little effort.

The present volume covers the central axes of this discipline.
Among them, the reader will find an analysis of the following: In addition to a summary of the essentials of the classic work Leviathan (1651), we offer the reader a description of the historical context in which Hobbes wrote in England in the seventeenth century, the height of the absolutist state, among others. At the end, you will find a useful glossary.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU
• Release date: Oct 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201526542

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Mauricio Enrique Fau nació en Buenos Aires en 1965. Se recibió de Licenciado en Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cursó también Derecho en la UBA y Periodismo en la Universidad de Morón. Realizó estudios en FLACSO Argentina. Docente de la UBA y AUTOR DE MÁS DE 3.000 RESÚMENES de Psicología, Sociología, Ciencia Política, Antropología, Derecho, Historia, Epistemología, Lógica, Filosofía, Economía, Semiología, Educación y demás disciplinas de las Ciencias Sociales. Desde 2005 dirige La Bisagra Editorial, especializada en técnicas de estudio y materiales que facilitan la transición desde la escuela secundaria a la universidad. Por intermedio de La Bisagra publicó 38 libros. Participa en diversas ferias del libro, entre ellas la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires y la FIL Guadalajara.

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Thomas Hobbes: Summarized Classics

SUMMARIZED CLASSICS

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Published by BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU, 2021.

THOMAS HOBBES: SUMMARIZED CLASSICS

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Copyright © 2021 Mauricio Enrique Fau

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ISBN: 9789871719150

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To my children Elías, Selva, Greta, Ciro and Yaco.

To my life's daughter Emma.

To my wife Cecilia.

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Thomas Hobbes: Summarized Classics

WHO IS HOBBES

LEVIATAN

CHAPTER 10  ESTEEM, DIGNITY, HONOR AND TITLE TO THINGS

CHAPTER 11  DIFFERENCE OF MANNERS

CHAPTER 13  NATURAL CONDITION OF THE HUMAN RACE, IN REGARD TO ITS HAPPINESS AND MISERY

CAUSES OF DISCORD AMONG MEN

MOTIVES THAT INCLINE MAN TO SEEK PEACE

CHAPTER 14  THE FIRST AND SECOND NATURAL LAWS, AND OF CONTRACTS

CHAPTER 17

CHAPTER 18

CHAPTER 19  SUCCESSION TO SOVEREIGN POWER

CHAPTER 20

CHAPTER 29  DISINTEGRATION OF A STATE

CHAPTER 52

THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT IN WHICH HOBBES WROTE. | INDIVIDUAL AND STATE

Reason and nature

Natural law and state sovereignty

England in the 17th century

Hobbes' model

Hobbes and science

Natural law

The absolutist State

Hobbes' iusnaturalism

The state of nature

Human nature

The social contract

The State

The theory of the absolutist state

Sovereign power

On absolute sovereignty

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WHO IS HOBBES

LEVIATAN

CHAPTER 10  OF POWER, ESTEEM, DIGNITY, HONOR AND TITLE TO THINGS

CHAPTER 11  THE DIFFERENCE IN MANNERS

CHAPTER 13  OF THE NATURAL CONDITION OF THE HUMAN RACE, IN REGARD TO ITS HAPPINESS AND MISERY

CHAPTER 14  OF THE FIRST AND SECOND NATURAL LAWS, AND OF CONTRACTS

CHAPTER 17  CAUSES, GENERATION AND DEFINITION OF A STATE

CHAPTER 18  RIGHTS OF SOVEREIGNS BY INSTITUTION

CHAPTER 19  OF THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF REPUBLICS BY INSTITUTION, AND OF SUCCESSION TO SOVEREIGN POWER

CHAPTER 20  OF PATERNAL AND DESPOTIC DOMINION

CHAPTER 29  OF THE CAUSES THAT WEAKEN OR TEND TO THE DISINTEGRATION OF A STATE

CHAPTER 52  ECCLESIASTICAL POWER

THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT IN WHICH HOBBES WROTE.

GLOSSARY

WHO IS HOBBES

Hobbes, Thomas (1588 -1679): English empiricist philosopher and one of the most important representatives of contractualism. Hobbes was witness to Cromwell's revolution in the mid-17th century, and to the regicide of Charles I. His objectives were aimed at avoiding civil war -as a strategic objective- and defending absolute monarchy -as an instrument-. For Hobbes, the state of nature is a pre-political, anti-social and selfish state, with man guided by his instinct of self-preservation, which leads him to a war of all against all. The social contract is signed to get out of this state of extreme danger and through it men delegate all their rights to the State (the leviathan ), which will henceforth be in charge of order and will have sovereignty or sole and indisputable authority. Hobbes -in his argumentation in favor of monarchical despotism- eliminated all traces of religious thought and did not take into account economic elements. He considered the political as the realm of power and order, as opposed to the state of nature, identified with anarchy and chaos. On the philosophical level, Hobbes was based on a deterministic and mechanistic conception of science, proposing the elaboration of a mechanical model of the universe, centered on motion and Euclidean geometry. In his theory, the very individuals who mechanically determine civil society are, in turn, mechanically determined. Fundamental work: Leviathan (1651).

LEVIATAN

The THEORY OF SOCIAL CONTRACT OR CONTRACTUALISM is an attempt to explain the emergence of national societies. It began to speak of a STATE OF NATURE, as a pre-social situation, and to a certain nature of man, which varies according to the author. The next thing was to establish that men leave this state of nature and sign a SOCIAL CONTRACT by which they go on to form a society. This abstract idea has to do with the interests of the time in which it was created: some aspects such as private property, political rights, individual liberties, relations between rulers and ruled, etc., were to be emphasized.

The central concern was to provide certain guidelines for the functioning of societies that, after the dismantling of feudalism, were unable to define a concrete order. A new order, a new stability, was sought. The role of the State in this order will vary according to the author.

CHAPTER 10  ESTEEM, DIGNITY, HONOR AND TITLE TO THINGS

Hobbes defines here a series of attributes. MAN'S POWER is divided into NATURAL, which refers to the faculties of the body or intelligence, and INSTRUMENTAL, which is acquired through natural power. The greatest power is that of the STATE.

There are things that reflect power, such as reputation for power, any quality that makes a man loved or feared, success, prudence, nobility, eloquence, good manners, arts of public utility.

ESTIMATION is the price of a man, given by others and expressed in honor or dishonor. DIGNITY is the value conferred on a man by the State. HONOR is synonymous with obey, love, fear, agree. DISHONOR is to disobey, to dissent.

It is HONORABLE everything that implies power: to be honored,