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Quentin Skinner, Visions of Politics: Hobbes and Civil Science (Volume III)
Cambridge University Press | ISBN 0521890608 | 2002 | PDF | 1 MB | 405 pages
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With this third and concluding volume, I turn fromRenaissance theories of self-government to their leading philosophical opponent, Thomas Hobbes. As we shall see, Hobbes was nurtured in the humanist ideals with which I was chiefly concerned in volume 2. But he went on to repudiate his upbringing and, in developing his theories of freedom, obligation and the state, he sought to discredit and supersede some of the most fundamental tenets of humanist political thought. Reacting above all against the Renaissance predilection for self-governing cityrepublics he constructed a theory of absolute sovereignty grounded on a covenant specifically requiring that each one of us
