Major Works
A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England [written 1666, published 1681]
- University of Chicago Press, 1997 (Joseph Cropsey, ed.)Hobbes presents here, in dialogue form, a reflection on the relation between reason and law. The opinion that emerges from this dialogue manages to maintain Hobbes’s famous insistence on the indivisibility of sovereignty while allowing for a separation of… More
Other Works
Three Discourses: A Critical Modern Edition of Newly Identified Work of the Young Hobbes
- University of Chicago Press, 1997 (Noel B. Reynolds and Arlene W. Saxonhouse, eds.)Hobbes may have been the author of the three essays printed here (“A Discourse Upon the Beginning of Tacitus,” “A Discourse of Rome,” and “A Discourse of Laws”), which, together with twelve other pieces, were published… More
Commentary
“Hobbes on Law”
- M. M. Goldsmith, in The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes (Tom Sorell, ed., Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 274-304An explanation of Hobbes’ doctrine of law and his theory of sovereignty that relates Hobbes’ political thought to 20th century jurisprudence and considers the criticisms leveled at Hobbes by two of his contemporaries, Sir Edward Coke and Sir… More“Hobbes, Locke, and the Problem of the Rule of Law”
- Michael Zuckert, in Launching Liberalism: on Lockean Political Philosophy (University Press of Kansas, 2002), pp. 297-310Zuckert traces a contemporary disagreement among “Hobbesian” and “Lockean” scholars of constitutional law back to a disagreement over the moral foundations of law, the relation of ends and means, and the possibility of appealing from… MoreHobbes and the Law
- David Dyzenhaus and Thomas Poole, eds. (Cambridge University Press, 2012)This volume provides the first collection of specially commissioned essays devoted to Hobbes and the law.