Hobbes|Richard Tuck 9056372793

||boek: Hobbes|vertaling: Rogier van Kappel|Lemniscaat-Kopstukken Filosofie

||door: Richard Tuck

||taal: nl
||jaar: 2000
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||pag.: 180p
||opm.: softcover|zo goed als nieuw

||isbn: 90-5637-279-3
||code: 1:000787

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Thomas Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, has long had the reputation of being a pessimistic atheist, who saw human nature as inevitably evil and proposed a totalitarian state to subdue human failings. In this illuminating study, Richard Tuck re-evaluates Hobbes's philosophy and dispels these myths, revealing him to have been passionately concerned with the refutation of scepticism, and to have developed a theory of knowledge which rivalled that of Descartes in its importance.

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Door veel vakgenoten bejubeld is de Britse filosoof Hobbes (1588-1679) bij het grote publiek nauwlijks in positieve zin bekend. Hij gaat door voor iemand met een negatief, op eigenbelang gebaseerd mens- en maatschappijbeeld, waarin voor morele noties geen plaats is. Tuck laat op overtuigende wijze zien dat dit populaire beeld niet klopt. Het boek bestaat uit twee gedeelten. Een biografisch deel met veel informatie over de tijd waarin Hobbes leeft. En een systematisch deel met een zeer inzichtelijke opsomming van de centrale leerstelling van Hobbes. Hobbes blijkt een uitermate veelzijdig en gematigd persoon met een begrip van de menselijke natuur waarvan wij nog steeds veel kunnen leren. De auteur is een internationaal erkende deskundige. Het boek is uitnemend van uitleg en stijl. De bibliografie is voor de vertaling bijgewerkt. Een hoogtepunt in deze reeks inleidingen tot belangrijke filosofen.

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Hobbes's reputation was paradoxical. He was hostile to dogmatism of every kind, yet he was seen as a brusque dogmatist. He was hostile to the intellectual authorities of the churches, but yet he wanted his own philosophical works to be the authoritative texts within the universities. The Conclusion tries to explain this paradox by placing Hobbes within a wider paradox, one which is possibly inherent to scepticism or liberalism. A central question remains: if we lose all confidence in the truth of existing beliefs, how can we live? Instead of scepticism, Hobbes offered a type of science: looking closer we find that his science is of an extremely exiguous kind.

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Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was the first great English political philosopher, and his book Leviathan was one of the first truly modern works of philosophy. Richard Tuck shows that while Hobbes may indeed have been an atheist, he was far from pessimistic about human nature, nor did he advocate totalitarianism. By locating him against the context of his age, we learn that Hobbes developed a theory of knowledge which rivaled that of Descartes in its importance for the formation of modern philosophy.

Table of Contents

Part I: Hobbes's life

The life of a humanist
The life of a philosopher
The life of a heretic

Part II: Hobbes's work

Science
Ethics
Politics
Religion

Part III: Interpretations of Hobbes

Hobbes as a modern natural law theorist
Hobbes as the demon of modernity
Hobbes as the social scientist
Hobbes as a moralist
Hobbes today

Conclusion

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Thomas Hobbes was the first great English political philosopher, and his book Leviathan was one of the first truly modern works of philosophy. He has long had the reputation of being a pessimistic atheist, who saw human nature as inevitably evil and proposed a totalitarian state to subdue human failings.

In this study, Richard Tuck dispels these myths, revealing Hobbes to have been passionately concerned with the refutation of scepticism in both sciences and ethics, and to have developed a theory of knowledge which rivalled that of Descartes in its importance for the formation of modern philosophy.

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Richard Francis Tuck FBA (born 1 January 1949) is a British academic, political theorist and historian of political thought. He taught at the University of Cambridge from 1973 to 1995. He then joined the faculty of Harvard University, where he teaches as the Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government.

Views on Brexit and the European Union

In his opinion-article, "The Left Case for Brexit" published by the Dissent, Tuck maintains that "the left's natural position should still be one of opposition to the EU," and that Brexit would open up political possibilities for the Left. In a 17 July, 2017 talk at the Policy Exchange entitled "Brexit: A Prize in Reach for the Left," Tuck advocates for a "genuine Brexit followed by a Labour government" that would both tactically "stall the movement towards independence in Scotland" and politically allow Britain to enact leftist policies, free from the "far-reaching restrictions which the EU imposes on traditional socialism." Tuck also co-authored a November 2017 "Brexit Proposal" with Dr. Christopher Bickerton of Cambridge University. Tuck favours historical international organisations such as the International Labour Organization (ILO) and domestic institutions such as the National Health Service (NHS), which promote socialist goals without compromising democratic processes. In contrast, he cautions against European Union (EU)'s imposition of neo-liberal structures that meet right-wing goals. Tuck criticises the technocratic elite, and regards Brexit referendum as the expression of democratic sovereignty.

Books

• Natural Rights Theories: Their Origin and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979
• Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989 ISBN 978-0192876683
• Philosophy and Government 1572-1651. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993
• Rights of War and Peace: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant. Oxford: University of Oxford Press, 1999
• Free Riding. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008
• The Sleeping Sovereign. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Interviews

• "Democratic Sovereignty and Brexit: A Conversation with Richard Tuck on Political Theory and Practice" International Critical Thought Volume 8, issue 4, 2018.
• "Richard Tuck on Free Riding" Philosophy Bites podcast, Feb. 10. 2008.

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Richard Tuck is Professor of Government Department. Professor Tuck is a premier scholar of the history of political thought. His works include Natural Rights Theories (1979), Hobbes (1989), and Philosophy and Government, 1572-1651 (1993). They address a variety of topics including political authority, human rights, natural law, and toleration, and focus on a number of thinkers including Hobbes, Grotius, Selden, and Descartes. His current work deals with political thought and international law, and traces the history of thought about international politics from Grotius, Hobbes, Pufendorf, Locke, and Vattel, to Kant. He is also engaged in a work on the origins of twentieth century economic thought; in it he argues that the 'free rider' problem was only invented, as a problem, in recent decades. Thus his interests to a remarkable degree span concerns in all subfields of the discipline.

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Quotes by Richard Tuck

"The culture of modern humanism into which he had thus incorporated himself was to remain important to Hobbes for the rest of his life, though, as we shall see, he distanced himself from many of its specific elements, and in particular its openness to classical republicanism." --Richard Tuck, Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction

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