Morality in the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes: cases in the law of nature

New York: Cambridge University Press (2009)
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In this book, S. A. Lloyd offers a radically new interpretation of Hobbes's laws of nature, revealing them to be not egoistic precepts of personal prudence but rather moral instructions for obtaining the common good.

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