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Submission and Subjection in Leviathan

Good Subjects in the Hobbesian Commonwealth

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Introduction

    • Michael Byron
    Pages 1-10
  3. State of Nature

    • Michael Byron
    Pages 11-27
  4. Laws of Nature

    • Michael Byron
    Pages 28-46
  5. Obligation

    • Michael Byron
    Pages 47-70
  6. Subjection

    • Michael Byron
    Pages 71-99
  7. Sovereigns

    • Michael Byron
    Pages 100-121
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 122-127

About this book

Leviathan invests the sovereign with nearly absolute power, and that vast sovereign has drawn the reader's eye for 350 years. Yet Hobbes has much to say about subjects as well, and he articulates a normative conception of a good subject.

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"An insightful book that challenges the widespread claim that Hobbesian subjects obey the sovereign out of fear of punishment. Instead, Michael Byron convincingly develops the idea that for Hobbes good subjects obey the law 'sincerely from the heart'. An important contribution to the philosophical literature on Hobbes's political theory." - Luciano Venezia, National University of Quilmes, Argentina

Authors and Affiliations

  • Kent State University, USA

    Michael Byron

About the author

Michael Byron is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, where he has held an appointment since 1997. He is the editor of Satisficing and Maximizing: Moral Theorists on Practical Reason (2004), the co- author (with Deborah Barnbaum) of Research Ethics: Text and Readings (2001), and the author of numerous journal articles in normative ethical theory, metaethics, and theory of rationality.

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