James J Hamilton
Biographic Data
| ID | 4451385 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James J Hamilton |
| GIVEN NAMES | James J |
| FAMILY NAME | Hamilton |
| SIGNATURE | HAMILTON J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Independent scholar E-mail: [email protected] |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hobbes on Felicity
Thomas Hobbes’s concept of felicity is a re-imagining of the Hellenistic concept of eudaimonia , which is based on the doctrine that people by nature are happy with little. His concept is based instead on an alternative view, that people by nature are never satisfied and it directly challenges the Aristotelian and Hellenistic concepts of eudaimonia . I also will suggest that Hobbes developed it from ideas he found in Aristotle’s Rhetoric as well …
The Social Context of Hobbes's Political Thought
The social context of Hobbes's political thought is ripe for reassessment in light of advances in the social history of seventeenth-century England in the past half-century. The evidence does not support C. B. Macpherson's claim that England had a “possessive market society” which became the social model for Hobbes's political theory, nor the case that Hobbes was a bourgeois ideologist. A new examination of his social theory, his social identity,…
The Origins of Hobbes’s State of Nature
I argue from The Elements of Law , De Cive and Leviathan that Hobbes constructed his state of nature drawing on an eclectic range of ideas – from Plato, Thucydides, Pyrrhonism and Chillingworth, and even Descartes. Sometimes he adapted themes and ideas from his reading and sometimes he reacted against them. His early humanist studies and work on Thucydides and Aristotle provided an important foundation. His account of primitive history was based …
The Battle of Fort Donelson
The Social Context of Hobbes's Political Thought
The social context of Hobbes's political thought is ripe for reassessment in light of advances in the social history of seventeenth-century England in the past half-century. The evidence does not support C. B. Macpherson's claim that England had a “possessive market society” which became the social model for Hobbes's political theory, nor the case that Hobbes was a bourgeois ideologist. A new examination of his social theory, his social identity,…
The Battle of Fort Donelson
The Origins of Hobbes’s State of Nature
I argue from The Elements of Law , De Cive and Leviathan that Hobbes constructed his state of nature drawing on an eclectic range of ideas – from Plato, Thucydides, Pyrrhonism and Chillingworth, and even Descartes. Sometimes he adapted themes and ideas from his reading and sometimes he reacted against them. His early humanist studies and work on Thucydides and Aristotle provided an important foundation. His account of primitive history was based …
The Social Context of Hobbes's Political Thought
The social context of Hobbes's political thought is ripe for reassessment in light of advances in the social history of seventeenth-century England in the past half-century. The evidence does not support C. B. Macpherson's claim that England had a “possessive market society” which became the social model for Hobbes's political theory, nor the case that Hobbes was a bourgeois ideologist. A new examination of his social theory, his social identity,…
Hobbes on Felicity
Thomas Hobbes’s concept of felicity is a re-imagining of the Hellenistic concept of eudaimonia , which is based on the doctrine that people by nature are happy with little. His concept is based instead on an alternative view, that people by nature are never satisfied and it directly challenges the Aristotelian and Hellenistic concepts of eudaimonia . I also will suggest that Hobbes developed it from ideas he found in Aristotle’s Rhetoric as well …
Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Social theory (2 works)