Kabala argues that today’s case for a religiously tolerant Hobbes has missed an important part of the historical record, the second edition of the Humble Proposals. Taking this document into account leads him to the conclusion that Hobbes’s endorsement of Independency alone cannot be used to argue that his work leads to religious toleration.
Robert A. Greene finds that Hobbes is one of the first writers in English to assert the eternity of the law of nature by invoking the biblical-based expression, verbum aeternum. He subsequently tries to understand why Hobbes’s use of the concept of eternity blurs throughout Leviathan.
In this article A. Bardin analyses Hobbes’s shift from The Elements of Law to a materialist approach, challenging Descartes’s dualism.
D. J. Kapust explores Hobbes’s relationship to Lucretius to show that in Leviathan Hobbes decisively rejected central features of Lucretius’ argument.
Article by Laurens Apeldoorn on the distinction in Hobbes’ Leviathan (1651) between the capacities of the sovereign and its importance for contemporary debates on the nature of Hobbesian sovereignty.
New volume edited by S. A. Lloyd provides a state-of-the-art overview of the central elements of Hobbes’s political philosophy and the ways in which they can be interpreted.
A Special Issue of Hobbes Studies on “The Reception of Hobbes in Germany” is now available.
A chapter on Oakeshott’s and Strauss’s reading of Hobbes in a volume on Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss.
A new entry by Marcus Adams on Hobbes’s philosophy of science in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP).
In this article Feisal G. Mohamed explores the links between Thomas Hobbes’s legal theory and Carl Schmitt’s reception of what he called the “protection- obedience axiom”.
