TY - BOOK ID - 142498857 TI - Sovereignty as a Vocation in Hobbes's Leviathan : New foundations, Statecraft, and Virtue PY - 2023 SN - 9789048557929 9048557925 PB - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, DB - UniCat KW - PHILOSOPHY / Political. KW - Hobbes, Leviathan, Virtue, Rhetoric, Sovereignty. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:142498857 AB - This book argues that the fundamental foundation of Hobbes's political philosophy in Leviathan is wise, generous, loving, sincere, just, and valiant-in sum, magnanimous-statecraft, whereby sovereigns aim to realize natural justice, manifest as eminent and other-regarding virtue. It proposes that concerns over the virtues of the natural person bearing the office of the sovereign suffuse Hobbes's political philosophy, defining both his theory of new foundations and his critiques of law and obligation. These aspects of Hobbes's thought are new to Leviathan, as they respond to limitations in his early works in political theory, Elements and De Cive-limitations made apparent by the civil wars and the regicide of Charles I. Though new, this book argues that they tap into ancient political and philosophical ideas, foremostly the variously celebrated, mystified, and maligned figure of the orator founder. ER -