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Sovereignty as a Vocation in Hobbes's Leviathan New foundations, Statecraft, and Virtue
By Matthew Hoye
Copyright 2024
318 Pages
by
Routledge
318 Pages
by
Routledge
This book argues that the fundamental foundation of Hobbes’s political philosophy in Leviathan is wise, generous, loving, sincere, just, and valiant—in sum, magnanimous—statecraft, whereby sovereigns aim to realize natural justice, manifest as eminent and other-regarding virtue. It proposes that concerns over the virtues of the natural person bearing the office of the sovereign suffuse Hobbes’s... Read more
New Foundations, Statecraft, and Virtue in Hobbes's Leviathan: Sovereignty as a Vocation, One: Introduction, Two: Leviathan against the Borough Corporation, Three: Rhetorical Action and Constitutive Politics, Four: Rhetorical Action in Leviathan, Five: New Foundation in Leviathan, Six: Law and Natural Justice, Seven: Obligation, Resistance, and Sovereign Virtue, Bibliography, Index.
Biography
Matthew Hoye is Associate Professor of Global Justice at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University. A political theorist by training, Hoye has a background in the history of ideas and philosophy. He obtained his PhD from the New School for Social Research in 2013 and was a visiting fellow at the Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies in Toronto and at Queen Mary, University of London. More recently, he has worked at Maastricht University and Vrije University, Amsterdam.
