TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thornton,Helen
TI  - State of nature or Eden? : Thomas Hobbes and his contemporaries on the natural condition of human beings 
SN  - 9781580461962
AV  - JC153.H659 T52 2005
U1  - 320.1 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Rochester
PB  - University of Rochester Press
KW  - Hobbes, Thomas,
KW  - Bible
KW  - O.T
KW  - Genesis
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Natural law
KW  - Fall of man
KW  - Nature and civilization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [226]-240) and index; State of nature or Eden? -- Hobbes' state of nature as an account of the fall? -- Hobbes' own belief or unbelief -- The contemporary reaction to Leviathan -- Hobbes and commentaries on Genesis -- A note on method and chapter order -- Good and evil -- Hobbes on good and evil -- The 'seditious doctrines' of the schoolmen -- The contemporary reaction -- The scriptural account -- The state of nature as an account of the fall? -- Equality and unsociability -- Hobbes and natural equality -- The contemporary reaction -- The scriptural account -- Hobbes on natural unsociability -- The contemporary reaction -- The scriptural account -- State of nature as Eden? -- The war of all against all -- Hobbes' war of all against all -- The contemporary reaction -- The scriptural account -- State of nature as fallen condition? -- The right and law of nature -- Hobbes and natural right -- The contemporary reaction -- Hobbes and natural law -- The contemporary reaction -- The scriptural account -- Hobbes as reformed theologian? -- The creation of society -- Hobbes on the escape from the state of nature -- The contemporary reaction : Hobbes versus divine right -- The scriptural account of Cain building a city -- Hobbes on the creation of the commonwealth -- The contemporary reaction : Hobbes versus the patriarchalists -- The scriptural account of the relationship between Adam and Eve -- State of nature as Eden, the process of the fall, and the fallen condition? --  Reading Hobbes' state of nature -- Anti-aristotelianism -- Hobbes' Protestantism
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0422/2004020274.html
ER  -