James Dundas on the Hobbesian State of Nature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12741735 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander Broadie (University of Glasgow, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-13 |
| Publication date | 2013-02-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Scottish Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-6651 • E-ISSN: 1755-2001 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/jsp.2013.0043 |
| OpenAlex | W2008081599 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 2 |
During the last few months of his life James Dundas, first Lord Arniston (c. 1620–79), wrote a monograph on moral philosophy. It appears never to have been mentioned in any work whether academic or otherwise. It includes a discussion promoting three doctrines against Hobbes. First, that something is simply good and something is simply bad, and that the first rule of morals is not self-love, but the glory of God. Secondly, the state of nature is not a state of war. Thirdly, contra Hobbes, the chief point in natural law is not that each person has a right to use all ways and means to preserve himself. This paper probes Dundas's arguments for his three doctrines
Epistemology · Glory · Moral philosophy · Natural (archaeology · Natural law · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · State of nature · History · Law · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Citations per year | 0.44 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2023 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |