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De Cive ("On the Citizen") is one of Thomas Hobbes's major works. The book was published originally in Latin from Paris in 1642, followed by two further Latin editions in 1647 from Amsterdam.
From the first publication of his political doctrine, with the Latin De Cive (1642), Hobbes was established as a philosopher of the first rank. The Clarendon edition, the first since the nineteenth century, uses modern editorial standards to establish an authoritative text. A full Introduction outlines the background to De Cive. An Index to ...
De Cive, published in 1642, was Hobbes’s first definitive articulation of his political philosophy. It includes Hobbes’s account of the state of nature and the origin of society in a contract, his analysis of the rights of the sovereign, the various forms sovereignty may take, and the dissolution of sovereignty in civil war.
De Cive (On the Citizen) is the first full exposition of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, the greatest English political philosopher of all time. Professors Tuck and Silverthorne have undertaken the first complete translation since 1651, a rendition long thought (in error) to be at least sanctioned by Hobbes himself.
Mar 11, 2009 · De Cive (1642) was Hobbes’s first published book of political philosophy. This work focuses more narrowly on the political: its three main sections are titled “Liberty”, “Empire” and “Religion”. However, De Cive was conceived as part of a larger work, the Elements of Philosophy.
De Cive Philosophicall Rudiments Concerning Government and Society. Or, A Dissertation Concerning Man in his severall habitudes and respects, as the Member of a Society, first Secular, and then Sacred.
discussed in biography. …Homine (1658; “Concerning Man”), and De Cive (1642; “Concerning the Citizen”)—was his attempt to arrange the various pieces of natural science, as well as psychology and politics, into a hierarchy, ranging from the most general and fundamental to the most specific.
Aug 20, 1998 · De Cive (On the Citizen) is the first full exposition of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, the greatest English political philosopher of all time. Professors Tuck and Silverthorne have...
Mar 5, 2018 · De Cive / On the Citizen contains many of his central ideas. This edition includes extensive commentary.
De Cive: the Latin version entitled in the first edition Elementorum philosophiæ sectio tertia de cive, and in later editions Elementa philosophica de cive. Thomas Hobbes - 1983 - Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Clarendon Press. Edited by Howard Warrender.
