Articles, chapters, etc. by Kinch Hoekstra
Histos, 2022
Abstract: The article provides a sample presentation of the critical edition in progress of Thoma... more Abstract: 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 modern text. A note on the text explains the format and the editorial principles of the specimen.
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The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes (posted 2021), 2016
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Rethinking the Foundations of Modern Political Thought (Cambridge University Press), Jan 1, 2006
Perhaps still a needed corrective.
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Hobbes's On the Citizen: A Critical Guide (Cambridge University Press), 2020
Thomas Hobbes claims that he set political philosophy on its proper footing for the first time in... more Thomas Hobbes claims that he set political philosophy on its proper footing for the first time in On the Citizen. We examine the opening argument (1.1-1.2), in which Hobbes seeks to remove and replace the longstanding Aristotelian foundation, that human beings are political animals. Hobbes associates this idea with the view that human society is made possible by “mutual love” and a desire for association for its own sake. We argue that Hobbes is particularly targeting the Nicomachean Ethics on philia (friendship or love) and its role in the polis. One might nonetheless doubt that Hobbes’s arguments were at all successful. Although Hobbes certainly takes pleasure in portraying Aristotle’s views in a maximally absurd light, we show that Hobbes’s argument is more sophisticated than it first appears, and that it brings out genuine difficulties for Aristotle’s view. Finally, we consider Hobbes’s revisitation of the idea of “political animals” in a later section of On the Citizen. What emerges from this discussion is that Hobbes’s disagreement with Aristotle does not only — perhaps, not primarily — concern the nature of human motivation, but rather the essence of politics. The idea of a naturally political animal turns out to be an oxymoron.
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The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides, 2022
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Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective (Cambridge University Press), 2016
An argument for an uncompromising conception of Athenian democracy as popular sovereignty, for go... more An argument for an uncompromising conception of Athenian democracy as popular sovereignty, for good or for ill. Accordingly, a sceptical view of attempts to assimilate that democracy to representative or constitutional democracy, or to see it as substantially constrained by qualifications of knowledge, morality, or other status. The focus is on the fifth century BCE, with some attention paid to philosophy, history, comedy, tragedy, and visual art.
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共和主义:古典与现代 Gonghe Zhuyi: Gudian yu Xiandai, ed. Ren Junfeng (Shanghai Renmin Publishing) (posted 2021), 2006
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Cardozo Law Review, Jan 1, 2013
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Hobbes Today: Insights for the 21st Century (Cambridge University Press), 2012
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Journal of the History of Ideas, 2015
Analysis of the Clarendon Edition of Leviathan, ed. Noel Malcolm, with particular attention to th... more Analysis of the Clarendon Edition of Leviathan, ed. Noel Malcolm, with particular attention to the discussion of the inalienability of sovereignty, the question of whether the "Review, and Conclusion" is written to be congenial to the new Parliamentary regime, and (more briefly) the treatment of Independency and the illustrated title page.
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Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Jan 1, 2006
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Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Jan 1, 2001
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Thucydides and the Modern World (Cambridge University Press), 2012
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Rivista di storia della filosofia, Jan 1, 2004
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Leviathan After 350 Years (Oxford University Press), Jan 1, 2004
This chapter considers the Review and Conclusion of Leviathan, a text which is commonly read as a... more This chapter considers the Review and Conclusion of Leviathan, a text which is commonly read as a retraction of Hobbes's royalism. In the earlier political writings, and perhaps in the body of Leviathan itself, there are signs of a preference for kingship over other forms of ...
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History of European Ideas, Dec 2018
A discussion of ancient conceptions of liberty, and some modern implications, via discussion of p... more A discussion of ancient conceptions of liberty, and some modern implications, via discussion of papers by Clifford Ando, Jed Atkins, Eva von Dassow, Benjamin Gray, Anthony Kaldellis, Melissa Lane, Jonathan Stökl, and Philip Wood.
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Journal of the History of Philosophy, Jan 1, 2002
If Deigh were right, sovereigns would not be obligated by the laws of nature. But Hobbes says tha... more If Deigh were right, sovereigns would not be obligated by the laws of nature. But Hobbes says that "Soveraigns are all subject to the Lawes of Nature; because such lawes be Divine, and cannot by any man, or Common-wealth be abrogated." 14 Deigh claims that Hobbes "denies that ...
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Political Theory, Jan 1, 1997
A focal point of twentieth-century commentary on Hobbes has been the few paragraphs in chapter 15... more A focal point of twentieth-century commentary on Hobbes has been the few paragraphs in chapter 15 of Leviathan where Hobbes presents the objections of someone he calls the Foole and then sets out to meet these objections. The Foole maintains that it is reasonable to break ...
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Cambridge Companion to Hobbes's Leviathan (posted 2021), 2007
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