Modern politics and nature

Author: Qu Jingdong
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: This book is the third issue of Thought and Society, divided into three main parts: thematic discussions, research papers, and book reviews. It provides a detailed introduction to the religious origins of Hobbes' and Rousseau's social theories in the tradition of natural law, such as "The Profound Religious Roots of Hobbes' and Rousseau's Social Theories," "The Great Definer: A New Interpretation of Hobbes' Theory of Absolute Sovereignty," "An Introduction to Leviathan," "Immortality of Mortals: The Historical Consciousness of Modern Political Philosophy," "The Concept of the Mean and the Dispersed," "Babel: Two Foundational Concepts of Statistical Sociology," "Schelling's Concept of Freedom," and "The Problem of Friendship."