Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan. Edited by Noel Malcolm. Oxford University Press; 1,832 pages; $375 and £195. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk WHEN Thomas Hobbes was maths tutor to the future English king, ...

At least from Bentham's time, the dominant interpretive approaches to Hobbes's Leviathan have tended to soften and blur the despotic message of that book. Writers of otherwise very different ...

Debates regarding obligation in Hobbes have turned on either natural right or natural law interpretations. Both interpretations tend to take up the question of obligation from the perspective of ...