The Cambridge Companion to Hobbess Leviathan or Defending Life

The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes's Leviathan

Author: Patricia Springborg

This Companion makes a new departure in Hobbes scholarship, addressing a philosopher whose impact was as great on Continental European theories of state and legal systems as it was at home. This volume is a systematic attempt to incorporate work from both the Anglophone and Continental traditions, bringing together newly commissioned work by scholars from ten different countries in a topic-by-topic sequence of essays that follows the structure of Leviathan, re-examining the relationship among Hobbes's physics, metaphysics, politics, psychology, and religion. Collectively they showcase important revisionist scholarship that re-examines both the context for Leviathan and its reception, demonstrating the degree to which Hobbes was indebted to the long tradition of European humanist thought. This Cambridge Companion shows that Hobbes's legacy was never lost and that he belongs to a tradition of reflection on political theory and governance that is still alive, both in Europe and in the diaspora.

See also: Journey into Islam or Christmas in Plains

Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice

Author: Francis J Beckwith

Defending Life is the most comprehensive defense of the prolife position on abortion ever published. It is sophisticated, but still accessible to the ordinary citizen. Without high-pitched rhetoric or appeals to religion, the author offers a careful and respectful case for why the prolife view of human life is correct. He responds to the strongest prochoice arguments found in law, science, philosophy, politics, and the media. He explains and critiques Roe v. Wade, and he explains why virtually all the popular prochoice arguments fail. There is simply nothing like this book.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction: Who and What Are We and Can We Know It?     xi
Moral Reasoning, Law, and Politics
Abortion and Moral Argument     3
The Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade, and Abortion Law     18
Abortion, Liberalism, and State Neutrality     42
Assessing the Case for Abortion Choice and Against Human Inclusiveness
Science, the Unborn, and Abortion Methods     65
Popular Arguments: Pity, Tolerance, and Ad Hominem     93
The Nature of Humanness and Whether the Unborn Is a Moral Subject     130
Does It Really Matter Whether the Unborn Is a Moral Subject? The Case from Bodily Rights     172
Extending and Concluding the Argument
Cloning, Bioethics, and Reproductive Liberty     203
Conclusion: A Case for Human Inclusiveness     226
Notes     231
Selected Bibliography     287
Index     291