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27Morality in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes: Cases in the Law of NatureCambridge University Press. 2009.In this book, S. A. Lloyd provides a radical interpretation of Hobbes' laws of nature, revealing them to be not egoistic precepts of personal prudence but rather moral instructions for obtaining the common good. This account of Hobbes' moral philosophy stands in contrast to both divine command and rational choice interpretations. Drawing from the core notion of reciprocity, Lloyd explains Hobbes' system of 'cases in the law of nature' and situates Hobbes' moral philosophy in the broader context …Read more
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7A Hobbesian Method for Establishing the Absurdity of Injustice Without Reliance on Hobbes’s Temporal ArgumentsHobbes Studies 36 (2): 141-155. 2023.The paper investigates Hobbes’s arguments that injustice is a kind of absurdity involving a “contradiction properly so called,” concluding that although those arguments are undermined by their reliance on a mistaken temporality assumption, Hobbes’s philosophy provides other means for establishing his desired conclusion.
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24Current Scholarship and Future Directions in Hobbes StudiesHobbes Studies 36 (2): 213-220. 2023.Today the study of Hobbes is both reputable and flourishing, to judge by the numbers in recent years of publications, submissions, conferences, workshops, and sessions at professional meetings devoted to Hobbes, along with growing interest from scholars in China and Latin America. I recently conducted a survey of colleagues working on Hobbes; a non-scientific survey, it included scholars working in a variety of departments. This research note reports the views of more than three dozen respondent…Read more
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5Varieties of Feminist Liberalism (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2004.The essays in this volume present versions of feminism that are explicitly liberal, or versions of liberalism that are explicitly feminist. By bringing together some of the most respected and well-known scholars in mainstream political philosophy today, Amy R. Baehr challenges the reader to reconsider the dominant view that liberalism and feminism are 'incompatible.'
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1Hobbes Today: Insights for the 21st Century (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2012.Hobbes Today: Insights for the 21st Century brings together an impressive group of political philosophers, legal theorists and political scientists to investigate the many ways in which the work of Thomas Hobbes, the famed seventeenth-century English philosopher, can illuminate the political and social problems we face today. Its essays demonstrate the contemporary relevance of Hobbes' political thought on such issues as justice, human rights, public reason, international warfare, punishment, fi…Read more
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94Ideals as Interests in Hobbes's Leviathan: The Power of Mind Over MatterCambridge University Press. 1992.S. A. Lloyd proposes a radically new interpretation of Hobbes's Leviathan that shows transcendent interests - interests that override the fear of death - to be crucial to both Hobbes's analysis of social disorder and his proposed remedy to it. Most previous commentators in the analytic philosophical tradition have argued that Hobbes thought that credible threats of physical force could be sufficient to deter people from political insurrection. Professor Lloyd convincingly shows that because Hobb…Read more
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58Morality in the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes: cases in the law of natureCambridge University Press. 2009.In this book, S. A. Lloyd offers a radically new interpretation of Hobbes's laws of nature, revealing them to be not egoistic precepts of personal prudence but rather moral instructions for obtaining the common good.
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7The State of Nature as a Continuum ConceptIn Marcus P. Adams (ed.), A Companion to Hobbes, Wiley-blackwell. 2021.This chapter suggests that the state of nature is a continuum notion that lies in a segment along a larger continuum of the scope of private judgment, as does the continuum notion of civil authority. Jean Hampton saw Thomas Hobbes's state of nature as a “presocietal” condition of “isolated asocial individuals,” “stripped of their social connections.” There is plentiful evidence against Hampton's interpretation of the state of nature as an “asocial” condition in Hobbes's insistence across all his…Read more
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5Learning from the History of Political PhilosophyIn Jon Mandle & David A. Reidy (eds.), A Companion to Rawls, Wiley-blackwell. 2013.This chapter supports three distinct but related claims about the significance of John Rawls′ attention to the history of political philosophy: that such attention offers the most fecund approach to questions of contemporary political philosophy, that it is not objectionably conservative, and that neglecting to learn how Rawls understood the great systems of the past places one at a severe disadvantage in interpreting Rawls's own theory of justice. It describes Rawls’ approach to the history of …Read more
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112 Power and Sexual Subordination in Hobbes’s Political TheoryIn Nancy J. Hirschmann & Joanne Harriet Wright (eds.), Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes, Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 47-62. 2012.
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12Hobbes, ThomasIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.
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22Liberty, Rationality, and Agency in Hobbes's Leviathan (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 40 (3): 397-398. 2002.S. A. Lloyd - Liberty, Rationality, and Agency in Hobbes's Leviathan - Journal of the History of Philosophy 40:3 Journal of the History of Philosophy 40.3 397-398 Book Review Liberty, Rationality, and Agency in Hobbes's Leviathan David van Mill. Liberty, Rationality, and Agency in Hobbes's Leviathan. Albany: The State University of New York Press, 2001. Pp. xii + 253. Cloth, $59.50. Paper, $19.95. David van Mill's provocative book is an ambitious and thoughtful argument by an author well-versed …Read more
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15Virtues and Rights: The Moral Philosophy of Thomas HobbesPhilosophical Review 103 (4): 753. 1994.
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82Hobbes's Reply to the Foole: A Deflationary Definitional InterpretationHobbes Studies 18 (1): 50-73. 2005.
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15Hobbes's Political Philosophy: Interpretation and Interpretations by Aloysius P. MartinichJournal of the History of Philosophy 60 (4): 695-697. 2022.A. P. Martinich has been perhaps the most prolific and influential contributor to a general understanding of Hobbes over the last three decades, producing a much-admired Hobbes biography, a volume introducing Hobbes's entire philosophical system, another placing it in historical context, an excellent student edition of Leviathan, a magnificent Oxford handbook of Hobbes, a monograph presenting Martinich's highly original interpretation of Hobbes's political philosophy, and more than a score of pa…Read more
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43Duty Without ObligationHobbes Studies 30 (2): 202-221. 2017._ Source: _Volume 30, Issue 2, pp 202 - 221 There is ongoing scholarly debate over the role that Hobbes’s laws of nature play in grounding the moral requirement that subjects obey the government under which they live. This essay demonstrates how the laws of nature, when understood as natural duties, may directly ground a moral duty to obey one’s sovereign without positing that subjects have undertaken any covenant of subjection. Such a grounding avoids the problems that attend accounts that depe…Read more
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22By Force or Wiles: Women in the Hobbesian Hunt for Allies and AuthorityHobbes Studies 33 (1): 5-28. 2020.The article investigates whether Hobbes’s political theory gives us reason to expect the systematic subordination of women. It argues that who dominates whom is a matter of victory in the quest to pull allies into ordered alliances. The primary means of gaining allies—force and wiles—depend on both skill-fitness and affective fitness. The analyses suggest that it is sex-linked and gender-linked differences in affective fitness—particularly in the intensity of men’s desire to use religious wiles—…Read more
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44Authorization and Moral Responsibility in the Philosophy of HobbesHobbes Studies 29 (2): 169-188. 2016.
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8A.P. Martinich, Hobbes’s Political Philosophy: Interpretation and InterpretationsHobbes Studies 35 (2): 212-218. 2022.
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11Hobbes’s Theory of Responsibility as Support for Sommerville’s Argument Against Hobbes’s Approval of IndependencyHobbes Studies 35 (1): 51-66. 2022.Just as some types of philosophical analysis are more useful than others to historians or political scientists, so, I find, are some sorts of historical research more useful to philosophers than are other sorts. Sommerville makes history useful to non-historians by clarifying the large-scale historical background against which his investigative questions are posed, and then separating out crucial figures, ideas, and events from arcana of interest primarily to specialist historians. His interpret…Read more
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26Hobbes and the Two Faces of Ethics by Arash AbizadehJournal of the History of Philosophy 58 (1): 174-175. 2020.Arash Abizadeh's main thesis is that Hobbes severed juridical obligation—a covenant-created practice of second-personal accountability—from allegedly prudential natural law, marking a "watershed" separation of the right from the good. Daniel Eggers, Mark Peacock, and David D. Raphael fruitfully explored that thesis. The proposed independence is doubtful because natural law both underwrites and constrains covenant: "a...
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