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The elements of law, natural and politic : part I, Human nature, part II, De corpore politico ; with Three lives
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The elements of law, natural and politic : part I, Human nature, part II, De corpore politico ; with Three lives

Author: Thomas Hobbes; John Aubrey; J C A Gaskin
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Series: Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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"Thomas Hobbes was the first great philosopher to write in English. His account of the human condition, first developed in The Elements of Law (1640), which comprises Human Nature and De Corpore Politico, is a direct product of the intellectual and political strife of the seventeenth century. It is also a remarkably penetrating look at human nature, and a still relevant analysis of the fears and self-seeking that  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Early works to 1800
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Thomas Hobbes; John Aubrey; J C A Gaskin
ISBN: 019283682X 9780192836823
OCLC Number: 43435991
Notes: This work was originally published in 1650 as two separate books, Human nature, and De corpore politico. Human nature contained the first 13 chapters, De Corpore politico contained chapters 14 thru 19 of the first work, and chapters 20 thru 29. The present edition considers chapters 1 thru 19 as part 1, Human nature, and chapters 20 thru 29 as part 2, De corpore politico.
Included in this work are chapters from Hobbes' De corpore, translations of His Verse life, and Prose life, and an abstract of John Aubrey's Brief life.
"First issued as a World's classic paperback 1994"--T.p. verso.
Description: lv, 284 p. ; 19 cm.
Contents: The Elements of Law Compared with the Contents of Hobbes's Other Works --
The Elements of law Natural and Politic --
Part I. Human Nature --
Part II. De Corpore Politico --
De Corpore, Chapters I, VI, and XXV --
Three Lives --
The Brief Life: An Abstract of Aubrey's Notes --
The Prose Life: A New Translation --
The Verse Life: A Contemporary Translation.
Series Title: Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Other Titles: Human nature
Responsibility: Thomas Hobbes ; edited with an introduction and notes by J.C.A. Gaskin.
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schema:reviewBody""Thomas Hobbes was the first great philosopher to write in English. His account of the human condition, first developed in The Elements of Law (1640), which comprises Human Nature and De Corpore Politico, is a direct product of the intellectual and political strife of the seventeenth century. It is also a remarkably penetrating look at human nature, and a still relevant analysis of the fears and self-seeking that result in the war of 'each against every man'. Hobbes sets out the main lines of his general philosophy, later augmented in De Corpore, and the moral and political philosophy later made famous in Leviathan." "This is the first complete popular edition of Human Nature and De Corpore Politico, and it includes chapters from De Corpore and 'Three Lives', two from Hobbes's original Latin. These have never before been published together in English. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET."
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