Hobbes today: insights for the 21st century

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Editor's introduction S. A. Lloyd Part I. Application to Problems of Governmental Powers and their Limits: 1. Supporting a normative order through Hobbesian reasoning Joshua Cohen 2. A note on Hobbesian lessons on bipartisanship David Braybrooke 3. Hobbes' theory of rights: a new application Eleanor Curran 4. Hobbesian legal reasoning and the problem of wicked laws Claire Finkelstein 5. Hobbesian equality Kinch Hoekstra 6. The representation of Hobbesian sovereignty: Leviathan as mythology Arash Abizadeh Part II. Application to Civil Society and Domestic Institutions: 7. On public and private conscience: public reason and religious convictions in Leviathan G. F. Gaus 8. 'Thrown amongst many': Hobbes on taxation and fiscal policy Neil McArthur 9. The imperfect legitimacy of punishment Alice Ristroph 10. In harm's way: Hobbes on the duty to fight for one's country Susanne Sreedhar 11. Confronting jihad: a defect in the Hobbesian educational strategy Maryam Qudrat Part III. Application to Problems of Global Scope: 12. Hobbesian realism in international relations: a reappraisal Chris Naticchia 12. Hobbesian assurance problems and global justice Aaron James 13. International relations, world government, and the ethics of war: a Hobbesian perspective S. A. Lloyd 14. Hobbesian defenses of orthodox just war theory Jeff McMahan 15. Hobbes and human rights Michael Green.

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