A P Martinich
Biographic Data
| ID | 1088326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A P Martinich |
| GIVEN NAMES | A P |
| FAMILY NAME | Martinich |
| SIGNATURE | MARTINICH A P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Covenant with Moses and the Kingdom of God
Oxford Handbook of Hobbes
Mozi’s Ideal Political Philosophy
The main purpose of this article is to show that the essence of Mozi’s political theory, namely that a civil state is in its best or ideal condition when each citizen exercises universal care (jian ai 兼愛), is more defensible than it is usually thought to be. Doing this will require an exposition of the main features of his theory and occasionally reference arguments and considerations outside of Mozi’s text. We interpret the disagreement between …
Ioannis D. Evrigenis. Images of Anarchy
The subject of Ioannis D. Evrigenis’s Images of Anarchy: The Rhetoric and Science in Hobbes’s State of Nature is Thomas Hobbes’s notion of the state of nature, that condition in which human beings are not constrained by any laws. Because no action, including killing and taking what other people control, breaks any law in such a condition and because at least most human beings act on behalf of their short-term, self-interested good, human life in …
Egoism, Reason, and the Social Contract
Bernard Gert’s distinctive interpretation of the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes in his recent book may be questioned in at least three areas: (1) Even if Hobbes is not a psychological egoist, he seems to be a desire egoist, which has the consequence, as he understands it, that a person acts at least for his own good in every action. (2) Although there are several senses of reason, it seems that Hobbes uses the idea that reason is calculation of mean…
A Moderate Logic of the History of Ideas
Mark Bevir's impressive theory of the logic of the history of ideas continues to attract readers and to irritate many theorists. This article has two purposes. One is to present the modified version, in which the focus will be on some major elements of Bevir's theory. The concepts that he introduced from analytic philosophy did not always fit perfectly with the ones used from continental philosophy. In contrast with those critics who think that h…
Interpreting the Religion of Thomas Hobbes
A. P. Martinich's The Two Gods of Leviathan appeared in 1992, and J. R. Collins's The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes in 2005. Martinich offered a revisionist interpretation of Thomas Hobbes's religious commitments. He rebuked the conventional view that Hobbes was an atheist and placed him within particular traditions of reformed Christian theology. Collins's book strongly differed from these conclusions, and reasserted Hobbes's hostility to traditio…
Philosophical Writing
Substantially updated and revised, the third edition of *Philosophical Writing* is designed to help those with little or no experience in philosophy to think and write successfully. - Traces the evolution of a good philosophical essay from draft stage to completion - Now includes new examples of the structures of a philosophical essay, new examples of rough drafts, tips on how to study for a test and a new section on how to utilize the internet e…
Two Uses of Thomas Hobbes's Philosophy in Melville's The Confidence-Man
(2003). Two Uses of Thomas Hobbes's Philosophy in Melville's The Confidence-Man. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 37-40
The Two Gods of Leviathan
Hobbes's Translations of Homer and Anticlericalism
(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.)In a recent article, Paul Davis has claimed that Hobbes's primary reason for translating Homer's Iliad and Odyssey was to continue his anticlerical agenda.1 My purpose in this response is to argue that the case he presents is not cogent.By 1673, when the first part of his translation of Homer's Odyssey appeared, Hobbes was eighty-five years old and had been arguing, often acrimoniously, with Engli…
Lin guistic Refutations o f Skepticism
Thomas Hobbes
Ideals as Interests in Hobbes's Leviathan
The Two Gods of Leviathan
As well as being considered the greatest English political philosopher, Hobbes has traditionally been thought of as a purely secular thinker, highly critical of all religion. In this provocative new study, Professor Martinich argues that conventional wisdom has been misled. In fact, he shows that religious concerns pervade Leviathan and that Hobbes was really intent on providing a rational defense of the Calvinistic Church of England that flouris…
Surfaces
Discussion – Infallibility
Patrick McGrath has argued that my defence of papal infallibility does not succeed. His basic strategy is to establish that, contrary to my arguments, infallible papal utterances are statements and not merely declarations. He wants this result in order to go on to show that the Pope, in possession of no priviliged epistemic access to the world, is not infallible. I agree that the Pope has no priviliged epistemic access; so that is not in dispute.…
Infallibility
It has often been charged that the doctrine of papal infallibility is either false or incoherent. These charges stem, I believe, from a misunderstanding of the logical character of infallible papal utterances, a misunderstanding shared alike by friends and foes of the doctrine. In this paper, I shall argue that the doctrine is both coherent and correct. I devote section I to uncovering some of the sources of this misunderstanding and thereby defe…
Conversational Maxims and Some Philosophical Problems
Journal Article Conversational Maxims and Some Philosophical Problems Get access A. P. Martinich A. P. Martinich University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 30, Issue 120, July 1980, Pages 215–228, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219243 Published: 01 July 1980
God, Emperor and Relative Identity
GOD, EMPEROR AND RELATIVE IDENTITY Concerning the truth of "supernatural revelations," Thomas Hobbes says, we are not to renounce our sense, and experience; nor, that which is the undoubted word of God, our natural reason. For they are the talents which he hath put into our hands to negotiate, till the coming again of our blessed savior; and therefore not to be folded up in a napkin of an implicit faith, but employed in the purchase of justice, p…
Referring
Identity and Trinity
Sacraments and Speech Acts, I
Sacraments and Speech Acts, Ii
Conversational Maxims and Some Philosophical Problems
Journal Article Conversational Maxims and Some Philosophical Problems Get access A. P. Martinich A. P. Martinich University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 30, Issue 120, July 1980, Pages 215–228, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219243 Published: 01 July 1980
Interpreting the Religion of Thomas Hobbes
A. P. Martinich's The Two Gods of Leviathan appeared in 1992, and J. R. Collins's The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes in 2005. Martinich offered a revisionist interpretation of Thomas Hobbes's religious commitments. He rebuked the conventional view that Hobbes was an atheist and placed him within particular traditions of reformed Christian theology. Collins's book strongly differed from these conclusions, and reasserted Hobbes's hostility to traditio…
Hobbes's Translations of Homer and Anticlericalism
(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.)In a recent article, Paul Davis has claimed that Hobbes's primary reason for translating Homer's Iliad and Odyssey was to continue his anticlerical agenda.1 My purpose in this response is to argue that the case he presents is not cogent.By 1673, when the first part of his translation of Homer's Odyssey appeared, Hobbes was eighty-five years old and had been arguing, often acrimoniously, with Engli…
Sacraments and Speech Acts, I
Sacraments and Speech Acts, Ii
Identity and Trinity
God, Emperor and Relative Identity
GOD, EMPEROR AND RELATIVE IDENTITY Concerning the truth of "supernatural revelations," Thomas Hobbes says, we are not to renounce our sense, and experience; nor, that which is the undoubted word of God, our natural reason. For they are the talents which he hath put into our hands to negotiate, till the coming again of our blessed savior; and therefore not to be folded up in a napkin of an implicit faith, but employed in the purchase of justice, p…
Referring
Infallibility
It has often been charged that the doctrine of papal infallibility is either false or incoherent. These charges stem, I believe, from a misunderstanding of the logical character of infallible papal utterances, a misunderstanding shared alike by friends and foes of the doctrine. In this paper, I shall argue that the doctrine is both coherent and correct. I devote section I to uncovering some of the sources of this misunderstanding and thereby defe…
Conversational Maxims and Some Philosophical Problems
Journal Article Conversational Maxims and Some Philosophical Problems Get access A. P. Martinich A. P. Martinich University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 30, Issue 120, July 1980, Pages 215–228, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219243 Published: 01 July 1980
Discussion – Infallibility
Patrick McGrath has argued that my defence of papal infallibility does not succeed. His basic strategy is to establish that, contrary to my arguments, infallible papal utterances are statements and not merely declarations. He wants this result in order to go on to show that the Pope, in possession of no priviliged epistemic access to the world, is not infallible. I agree that the Pope has no priviliged epistemic access; so that is not in dispute.…
Surfaces
The Two Gods of Leviathan
As well as being considered the greatest English political philosopher, Hobbes has traditionally been thought of as a purely secular thinker, highly critical of all religion. In this provocative new study, Professor Martinich argues that conventional wisdom has been misled. In fact, he shows that religious concerns pervade Leviathan and that Hobbes was really intent on providing a rational defense of the Calvinistic Church of England that flouris…
Ideals as Interests in Hobbes's Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
Lin guistic Refutations o f Skepticism
Hobbes's Translations of Homer and Anticlericalism
(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.)In a recent article, Paul Davis has claimed that Hobbes's primary reason for translating Homer's Iliad and Odyssey was to continue his anticlerical agenda.1 My purpose in this response is to argue that the case he presents is not cogent.By 1673, when the first part of his translation of Homer's Odyssey appeared, Hobbes was eighty-five years old and had been arguing, often acrimoniously, with Engli…
Two Uses of Thomas Hobbes's Philosophy in Melville's The Confidence-Man
(2003). Two Uses of Thomas Hobbes's Philosophy in Melville's The Confidence-Man. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 37-40
The Two Gods of Leviathan
Philosophical Writing
Substantially updated and revised, the third edition of *Philosophical Writing* is designed to help those with little or no experience in philosophy to think and write successfully. - Traces the evolution of a good philosophical essay from draft stage to completion - Now includes new examples of the structures of a philosophical essay, new examples of rough drafts, tips on how to study for a test and a new section on how to utilize the internet e…
Interpreting the Religion of Thomas Hobbes
A. P. Martinich's The Two Gods of Leviathan appeared in 1992, and J. R. Collins's The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes in 2005. Martinich offered a revisionist interpretation of Thomas Hobbes's religious commitments. He rebuked the conventional view that Hobbes was an atheist and placed him within particular traditions of reformed Christian theology. Collins's book strongly differed from these conclusions, and reasserted Hobbes's hostility to traditio…
Egoism, Reason, and the Social Contract
Bernard Gert’s distinctive interpretation of the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes in his recent book may be questioned in at least three areas: (1) Even if Hobbes is not a psychological egoist, he seems to be a desire egoist, which has the consequence, as he understands it, that a person acts at least for his own good in every action. (2) Although there are several senses of reason, it seems that Hobbes uses the idea that reason is calculation of mean…
A Moderate Logic of the History of Ideas
Mark Bevir's impressive theory of the logic of the history of ideas continues to attract readers and to irritate many theorists. This article has two purposes. One is to present the modified version, in which the focus will be on some major elements of Bevir's theory. The concepts that he introduced from analytic philosophy did not always fit perfectly with the ones used from continental philosophy. In contrast with those critics who think that h…
Mozi’s Ideal Political Philosophy
The main purpose of this article is to show that the essence of Mozi’s political theory, namely that a civil state is in its best or ideal condition when each citizen exercises universal care (jian ai 兼愛), is more defensible than it is usually thought to be. Doing this will require an exposition of the main features of his theory and occasionally reference arguments and considerations outside of Mozi’s text. We interpret the disagreement between …
Ioannis D. Evrigenis. Images of Anarchy
The subject of Ioannis D. Evrigenis’s Images of Anarchy: The Rhetoric and Science in Hobbes’s State of Nature is Thomas Hobbes’s notion of the state of nature, that condition in which human beings are not constrained by any laws. Because no action, including killing and taking what other people control, breaks any law in such a condition and because at least most human beings act on behalf of their short-term, self-interested good, human life in …
Oxford Handbook of Hobbes
The Covenant with Moses and the Kingdom of God
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