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Made with Words : Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics / Philip Pettit.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Edition: Core TextbookDescription: 1 online resource : 1 line illusContent type:
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  • 9780691143255
  • 9781400828227
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • B1247.P48 2008
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Mind in Nature -- CHAPTER TWO. Minds with Words -- CHAPTER THREE. Using Words to Ratiocinate -- CHAPTER FOUR. Using Words to Personate -- CHAPTER FIVE. Using Words to Incorporate -- CHAPTER SIX. Words and the Warping of Appetite -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The State of Second, Worded Nature -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Commonwealth of Ordered Words -- Summary -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. But this work is of immense interest in itself, as Philip Pettit shows in Made with Words, and it critically shapes Hobbes's political philosophy. Pettit argues that it was Hobbes, not later thinkers like Rousseau, who invented the invention of language thesis--the idea that language is a cultural innovation that transformed the human mind. The invention, in Hobbes's story, is a double-edged sword. It enables human beings to reason, commit themselves as persons, and incorporate in groups. But it also allows them to agonize about the future and about their standing relative to one another; it takes them out of the Eden of animal silence and into a life of inescapable conflict--the state of nature. Still, if language leads into this wasteland, according to Hobbes, it can also lead out. It can enable people to establish a commonwealth where the words of law and morality have a common, enforceable sense, and where people can invoke the sanctions of an absolute sovereign to give their words to one another in credible commitment and contract. Written by one of today's leading philosophers, Made with Words is both an original reinterpretation and a clear and lively introduction to Hobbes's thought.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Mind in Nature -- CHAPTER TWO. Minds with Words -- CHAPTER THREE. Using Words to Ratiocinate -- CHAPTER FOUR. Using Words to Personate -- CHAPTER FIVE. Using Words to Incorporate -- CHAPTER SIX. Words and the Warping of Appetite -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The State of Second, Worded Nature -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Commonwealth of Ordered Words -- Summary -- Notes -- References -- Index

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Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. But this work is of immense interest in itself, as Philip Pettit shows in Made with Words, and it critically shapes Hobbes's political philosophy. Pettit argues that it was Hobbes, not later thinkers like Rousseau, who invented the invention of language thesis--the idea that language is a cultural innovation that transformed the human mind. The invention, in Hobbes's story, is a double-edged sword. It enables human beings to reason, commit themselves as persons, and incorporate in groups. But it also allows them to agonize about the future and about their standing relative to one another; it takes them out of the Eden of animal silence and into a life of inescapable conflict--the state of nature. Still, if language leads into this wasteland, according to Hobbes, it can also lead out. It can enable people to establish a commonwealth where the words of law and morality have a common, enforceable sense, and where people can invoke the sanctions of an absolute sovereign to give their words to one another in credible commitment and contract. Written by one of today's leading philosophers, Made with Words is both an original reinterpretation and a clear and lively introduction to Hobbes's thought.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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