Kinch Hoekstra
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592140 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kinch Hoekstra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kinch |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoekstra |
| SIGNATURE | HOEKSTRA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8055-071X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Time, History, and Political Thought
The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides
Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the earliest and most influential works in the western historiographical tradition. It provides an unfinished account of the war between Athens and her allies and Sparta and her allies which lasted from 431 to 404 BC, and is a masterpiece of narrative art and of political analysis. The twenty chapters in this Companion offer a wide range of perspectives on different aspects of the text, its i…
Philosophical discourse and myth
This paper questions the argument in Tae-Yeoun Keum’s Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought about the relation between myth and philosophical discourse. In the context of Plato’s Republic in particular, myth remains but one of the several devices that are presented as acceptable only if they are vetted by and consistent with reason. More generally, I ask about the justification or grounding of myth, and how we can know that myth is …
Thomas Hobbes’s Translation of ‘The Plague of Athens’ (Thuc. 2.47.2–54)
The article provides a sample presentation of the critical edition in progress of Thomas Hobbes’s translation of Thucydides, Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre (London, 1629). The specimen of the edition is Thucydides’ narration of the ‘Plague of Athens’, accompanied by an introduction that sets Hobbes’s edition in its historical context, considers his method of translation, and lays out some distinctive requirements for editing an early mod…
The Birth of Ethics
The Birth of Ethics begins from a counterfactual world, Erewhon, where the residents are like us in various respects, including the use of natural language, but lack any sense of ethics or morality. The claim is that the inhabitants of that society would more or less inevitably develop certain practices and concepts, and that this development would effectively make them into moral creatures: agents versed in concepts like those of good and bad, r…
The liberties of the ancients
A final roundtable with Kinch Hoekstra and Quentin Skinner was held at the end of the conference. The panelists were invited to comment on all the papers delivered at the colloquium, with a view to
Thucydides and the Politics of Necessity
Thucydides’ text is a locus classicus for political-theoretical discussions of necessity. Such figures as the Athenian envoys in Sparta and Melos frequently draw upon the concept to explain and justify their actions, while Thucydides himself employs it to great explanatory effect in accounting for the actions and origins of the Peloponnesian War. But necessity does not work in only one mode for Thucydides, nor do his characters draw on one consis…
Athenian democracy and popular tyranny
An account of popular sovereignty that begins with the fifth century BCE may seem to be off to a false start. 1 Foundational works in the history of political thought have taught us that the very notion of sovereignty, and thus of popular sovereignty, emerged from the particular historical circumstances of the early modern era.One might thus believe that fifth-century Greeks could not be discussing popular sovereignty some two thousand years befo…
Making History
The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes
The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes consists of twenty-six original chapters by a group of distinguished philosophers, political theorists, historians, and literary scholars from North America and Europe. All the contributors have made substantial contributions to Hobbes scholarship, some over the course of decades. The book is divided into five parts: Logic and Natural Philosophy; Human Nature and Moral Philosophy; Political Philosophy; Religion; and …
Oxford Handbook of Hobbes
The Clarendon Edition of Hobbes's Leviathan
This article responds to the previous articles in this issue on the new Clarendon Edition of Hobbes's Leviathan. It focuses in particular on points raised by Kinch Hoekstra, concerning such matters as Hobbes's theory about the nullity of grants of essential sovereign powers, the intended readership of the text, the nature of Hobbes's political re-positioning in the "Review, and Conclusion" at the end of the book, and the iconography of the famous…
Thucydides and the Modern World
The ancient Greek historian Thucydides has had an enormous impact on modern historiography, political theory, international relations and strategic studies, but this influence has never been properly studied. This book brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the different facets of Thucydides' modern reception and influence, from the birth of political theory in Renaissance Europe to the rise of scientific history …
Ii*-the End of Philosophy (The Case of Hobbes)
Nothing to Declare
I AM GRATEFUL to Peter Hayes for prompting me to rethink my views on Hobbes's presentation of and reply to Foole from chapter 15 of the Leviathan. I criticized the traditional interpretation of this passage, according to which Hobbes argues for the necessary irrationality of injustice or covenant breaking, and I proposed that he instead argues at this point for the irrationality or unreasonability of advocating injustice.' I distinguished between…
Books in Review
Hobbes and the Foole
Answere not a foole according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answere a foole according to his folly, lest hee be wise in his owne conceit. Proverbs 26:4-5
Hobbes and the Foole
Answere not a foole according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answere a foole according to his folly, lest hee be wise in his owne conceit. Proverbs 26:4-5
The liberties of the ancients
A final roundtable with Kinch Hoekstra and Quentin Skinner was held at the end of the conference. The panelists were invited to comment on all the papers delivered at the colloquium, with a view to
Thucydides and the Politics of Necessity
Thucydides’ text is a locus classicus for political-theoretical discussions of necessity. Such figures as the Athenian envoys in Sparta and Melos frequently draw upon the concept to explain and justify their actions, while Thucydides himself employs it to great explanatory effect in accounting for the actions and origins of the Peloponnesian War. But necessity does not work in only one mode for Thucydides, nor do his characters draw on one consis…
Nothing to Declare
I AM GRATEFUL to Peter Hayes for prompting me to rethink my views on Hobbes's presentation of and reply to Foole from chapter 15 of the Leviathan. I criticized the traditional interpretation of this passage, according to which Hobbes argues for the necessary irrationality of injustice or covenant breaking, and I proposed that he instead argues at this point for the irrationality or unreasonability of advocating injustice.' I distinguished between…
The Clarendon Edition of Hobbes's Leviathan
This article responds to the previous articles in this issue on the new Clarendon Edition of Hobbes's Leviathan. It focuses in particular on points raised by Kinch Hoekstra, concerning such matters as Hobbes's theory about the nullity of grants of essential sovereign powers, the intended readership of the text, the nature of Hobbes's political re-positioning in the "Review, and Conclusion" at the end of the book, and the iconography of the famous…
Books in Review
Hobbes and the Foole
Answere not a foole according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answere a foole according to his folly, lest hee be wise in his owne conceit. Proverbs 26:4-5
Nothing to Declare
I AM GRATEFUL to Peter Hayes for prompting me to rethink my views on Hobbes's presentation of and reply to Foole from chapter 15 of the Leviathan. I criticized the traditional interpretation of this passage, according to which Hobbes argues for the necessary irrationality of injustice or covenant breaking, and I proposed that he instead argues at this point for the irrationality or unreasonability of advocating injustice.' I distinguished between…
Ii*-the End of Philosophy (The Case of Hobbes)
Thucydides and the Modern World
The ancient Greek historian Thucydides has had an enormous impact on modern historiography, political theory, international relations and strategic studies, but this influence has never been properly studied. This book brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the different facets of Thucydides' modern reception and influence, from the birth of political theory in Renaissance Europe to the rise of scientific history …
The Clarendon Edition of Hobbes's Leviathan
This article responds to the previous articles in this issue on the new Clarendon Edition of Hobbes's Leviathan. It focuses in particular on points raised by Kinch Hoekstra, concerning such matters as Hobbes's theory about the nullity of grants of essential sovereign powers, the intended readership of the text, the nature of Hobbes's political re-positioning in the "Review, and Conclusion" at the end of the book, and the iconography of the famous…
Athenian democracy and popular tyranny
An account of popular sovereignty that begins with the fifth century BCE may seem to be off to a false start. 1 Foundational works in the history of political thought have taught us that the very notion of sovereignty, and thus of popular sovereignty, emerged from the particular historical circumstances of the early modern era.One might thus believe that fifth-century Greeks could not be discussing popular sovereignty some two thousand years befo…
Making History
The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes
The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes consists of twenty-six original chapters by a group of distinguished philosophers, political theorists, historians, and literary scholars from North America and Europe. All the contributors have made substantial contributions to Hobbes scholarship, some over the course of decades. The book is divided into five parts: Logic and Natural Philosophy; Human Nature and Moral Philosophy; Political Philosophy; Religion; and …
Oxford Handbook of Hobbes
Thucydides and the Politics of Necessity
Thucydides’ text is a locus classicus for political-theoretical discussions of necessity. Such figures as the Athenian envoys in Sparta and Melos frequently draw upon the concept to explain and justify their actions, while Thucydides himself employs it to great explanatory effect in accounting for the actions and origins of the Peloponnesian War. But necessity does not work in only one mode for Thucydides, nor do his characters draw on one consis…
The Birth of Ethics
The Birth of Ethics begins from a counterfactual world, Erewhon, where the residents are like us in various respects, including the use of natural language, but lack any sense of ethics or morality. The claim is that the inhabitants of that society would more or less inevitably develop certain practices and concepts, and that this development would effectively make them into moral creatures: agents versed in concepts like those of good and bad, r…
The liberties of the ancients
A final roundtable with Kinch Hoekstra and Quentin Skinner was held at the end of the conference. The panelists were invited to comment on all the papers delivered at the colloquium, with a view to
Thomas Hobbes’s Translation of ‘The Plague of Athens’ (Thuc. 2.47.2–54)
The article provides a sample presentation of the critical edition in progress of Thomas Hobbes’s translation of Thucydides, Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre (London, 1629). The specimen of the edition is Thucydides’ narration of the ‘Plague of Athens’, accompanied by an introduction that sets Hobbes’s edition in its historical context, considers his method of translation, and lays out some distinctive requirements for editing an early mod…
Time, History, and Political Thought
The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides
Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the earliest and most influential works in the western historiographical tradition. It provides an unfinished account of the war between Athens and her allies and Sparta and her allies which lasted from 431 to 404 BC, and is a masterpiece of narrative art and of political analysis. The twenty chapters in this Companion offer a wide range of perspectives on different aspects of the text, its i…
Philosophical discourse and myth
This paper questions the argument in Tae-Yeoun Keum’s Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought about the relation between myth and philosophical discourse. In the context of Plato’s Republic in particular, myth remains but one of the several devices that are presented as acceptable only if they are vetted by and consistent with reason. More generally, I ask about the justification or grounding of myth, and how we can know that myth is …
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