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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.
A philosophical treatise on the nature and origin of civil society, justice, and religion. Hobbes argues that man is a wolf to man in the state of nature, and that the sovereign is necessary to ensure peace and order.
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.
Jun 26, 2024 · 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.
- Thomas Hobbes
- 1998
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: The English Version. Thomas Hobbes Edited by Howard Warrender. 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.
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Jun 27, 2024 · 'Deborah Baumgold's brilliantly executed parallel-text edition demonstrates her thesis that Hobbes wrote his political theory three times over as the English civil war unfolded, in Elements, De Cive and Leviathan, each for different audiences.'
