Limiting Leviathan: Hobbes on Law and International Affairs

Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press (2013)
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Abstract

Thomas Hobbes wrote extensively about law, was strongly influenced by legal debates, and is considered by many to be one of the first legal positivists. Larry May presents the first book in English on Hobbes's legal philosophy, offering a new interpretation of Hobbes's views about the connections among law, politics, and morality

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