Modern Politics and Nature -- Ideas and Society, Issue 3

Author: Qu Jingdong
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: This book is divided into three parts: thematic seminars, research papers, and book reviews, providing a detailed introduction to the religious origins of Hobbes' and Rousseau's social theories in the natural law tradition, a new interpretation of Hobbes' theory of absolute sovereignty, a guide to Leviathan, the immortality of mortal beings: the historical consciousness of modern political philosophy, the concept of the average person and the dispersed person, Babel: two foundational concepts of statistical sociology, Schelling's concept of freedom, and the dilemma of friendship, etc.