Intellectual History Flashcards
‘some historical explanation…
of Hobbes’ views’ - Howard Warrander, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes (1957)
‘To adduce historical evidence…
for the view that Hobbes intended his work for a contemporary Christian audience’ is ‘to confuse the issue’ - Howard Warrander, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes (1957)
‘that he intended…
to write for all time’ - Howard Warrander, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes (1957)
‘Metaphoric’ action of…
‘writing between the lines’ - Leo Strauss, Persecution and the Act of Writing (1952)
‘His most original…
thoughts are hidden rather than shown forth’ - Leo Strauss, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Genesis (1936)
‘analagous to that…
of analytical chemistry’ - Arthur Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being (1936)
‘most philosophic systems…
are original or distinctive rather in their patterns than in their components’ - Arthur Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being (1936)
‘foolish to fancy…
that any philosophy can transcend its present world’ - Georg Hegel, Philosophy of Right (1821)
‘States, nations, and individuals…
are all the time the unconscious tools of the world mind’ - George Hegel, Philosophy of Right (1821)
‘did not lose its…
popularity because it was absurd, but because its work was done’ - John Neville Figgis, The Divine Right of Kings (1896)
‘no system of politics…
can be immutable… a universal theory of the state is a chimera’ - John Neville Figgis, The Divine Right of Kings (1896)
‘the method of Whig historians…
is apparently to isolate the phenomenon and to observe it in vacuo’ - John Neville Figgis, The Divine Right of Kings (1896)
‘the theory of natural…
rights is the old theory of Divine Right disguised’ - John Neville Figgis, The Divine Right of Kings (1896)
What, according to Figgis, did Hobbes draw from?
Continental French theories opposing the Divine Right, notably Bodin
What, according to Figgis, did John Locke’s thought represent?
The adaptation of divine right through natural right into contractual theory
‘the differences between…
[Plato and Hobbes’ definitions of the state] were not superficial but went down to essentials’ - R.G. Collingwood, Autobiography (1939)
‘what even the best…
and wisest of those who are engaged in politics are trying to do has altered’ - R.G. Collingwood, Autobiography (1939)
‘all history…
is the history of thought’ - R.G. Collingwood, The Idea of History (1946)
‘political life itself…
sets the main problems for the political theorist’ - Quentin Skinner, Foundations of Modern Political Thought, vol.1 (1978)
Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos (1579) as ‘a recogniseably…
modern, secularised thesis’ - Quentin Skinner, Foundations of Modern Political Thought, vol.2 (1978)
In which book chapter did John Coffey argue that Skinner’s atheism had blinded him to religious assumptions in the past?
John Coffey, ‘Quentin Skinner and the Religious Dimension of Early Modern-Political Thought’ (2009)
Which article criticised Skinners methodology as focusing on contentions rather than [religious] consensuses?
David Wooton, ‘The Fear of God in Early Modern Political Theory’ (1983)
Which book criticised Skinners dismissal of Calvinist theory of revolution; ‘strictly speaking no such entity exists’, ‘little of their ideology is distinctly Calvinist’;?
Carlos Eire, War Against the Idols (1986)
‘secular Lockean liberals… [are]…
the heirs of the egalitarian promise of Calvinism’ - John Dunn, The Political Thought of John Locke (1969)
What did J.G.A. Pocock write in his ‘Advice to Readers’, Barbarism and Religion, vol.5 (2010)?
That they should not consider Christianity ‘obselete or false’
‘English political debate…
is recurrently subordinate to English political theology’ - J.G.A Pocock, ‘A Discourse on Sovereignty’ in Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain (1993)
‘[Hobbes] exercised a…
very great influence on all subsequent political thought… especially on Locke’ - Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History (1953)
‘It is on the basis…
of Hobbes’ view of the law of nature that Locke opposes Hobbes’ conclusions’ - Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History (1953)
What did Peter Laslett do in his edition of the Two Treatises on Government?
Identified the First Treatise as a sentence by sentence refutation of Robert Filmer’s Patriarcha (1680)
Which scholar of Robert Filmer credits Peter Laslett as rescuing him from ‘the condescension of posterity’?
Cesare Cuttica, Sir Robert Filmer and the Patriotic Monarch (2012)
Which work deals with Hobbes’ reception?
Jon Parkin, Taming the Leviathan (2007)
Which non-elite sources are used in Jon Parkin, Taming the Leviathan (2007)?
- Sermons by Samuel Parker
- Satirical Pamphlets by John Eachard
- Plays by John Dryden
Which anthology collects sources on Locke’s reception?
Mark Goldie, The Reception of Locke’s Politics (1999)
Which non-elite sources did Mark Goldie cite in the introduction of The Reception of Locke’s Politics (1999)?
Childrens books, stage comedies, novels of Samuel Richardson, legal defence of the Jacobin Thomas Hardy (1794) on treason charges
Which work was seminal for the study of mid-17th century English sects?
Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down (1972)
‘The Agreements of the People…
were social contracts’ - Iain Hampshire-Monk, ‘The Political Theory of the Levellers’ (1976)
‘Nothing quite like…
this [Leveller] conjunction had been asserted before’ - Harro Höpfl & Martyn Thompson, ‘The History of Contract as a Motif in Political Thought’ (1979)
Which work examined Diggers and Levellers alongside Machiavellian and Harringtonian republicanism?
Christopher Pierson, Just Property, vol.1 (2013)
‘I propose an understanding…
of the Levellers which places them centrally in the constitutional and political events of the time’ - Denis Galligan, Constitutions and the Classics (2014)
Why did Denis Galligan consider the Levellers worthy of study?
Their genuinely developmental vision of the constitution as ‘a social form comprised of ideas, concepts, and rules’
How did J.G.A. Pocock view the Levellers in the Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law (1957)?
As very much within the English Liberties tradition with strong shades of ‘anti-Normanism’
Which engraver produced the frontispiece for Leviathan under the direction of Hobbes?
Abraham Bosse
Which German article provides a good early example of the use of visual intellectual history?
Reinhard Brandt, ‘Das Titelblatt des Leviathan’ (1987)
Which article saw Hobbes’ sovereign portrayed as a sea monster (thus giving insights into his attitude toward state terror and usurpation)?
Magnus Kristiansson & Johan Tralau, ‘Hobbes’ Hidden Monster’ (2014)
Which CIH blog post connected the Leviathan frontispiece to debates on Cartesian epistemology?
Esben Korsgaard Rasmussen, ‘Thomas Hobbes and the Rejection of Objective Being’ (2023)
Which book contains a chapter on ‘Hobbes and the Humanist Frontispiece’ - arguing that visual and metaphoric communication shows the continuity of humanist modes in Hobbes work?
Quentin Skinner, From Humanism to Hobbes (2018)
TH (51)
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651)
JL (89)
John Locke, Two Treatises of Government (1689)
Which additional examples of 17th century contractualist theory are there?
Henry Parker, Jus Populi (1644)
John Milton, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)
Algernon Sidney, Discourses Concerning Government (1698) [written in the 1680s]
PL ed (60)
John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, Peter Laslett (ed.) (1960)
JD (69)
John Dunn, The Political Thought of John Locke (1969)
JP (57)
J.G.A Pocock, The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law (1957)
QS (66)
Quentin Skinner, ‘The Ideological Context of Hobbes’ Political Thought’ (1966)
QS (98)
Quentin Skinner, Liberty before Liberalism (1998)
HW (57)
Howard Warrander, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes (1957)
LS (52)
Leo Strauss, Persecution and the Act of Writing (1952)
LS (36)
Leo Strauss, The Political Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes: Its Basis and Its Genesis (1936)
AL (36)
Arthur Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being (1936)
GH (21)
Georg Hegel, Philosophy of Right (1821)
GH (37)
Georg Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1837)
JF (96)
John Neville Figgis, The Divine Right of Kings (1896)
RC (39)
R.G. Collingwood, Autobiography (1939)
RC (46)
R.G. Collingwood, The Idea of History (1946)
QS (78)
Quentin Skinner, Foundations of Modern Political Thought (1978)
JC (09)
John Coffey, ‘Quentin Skinner and the Religious Dimension of Early Modern Political Thought’ in Seeing Things Their Way (2009)
CE (86)
Carlos Eire, War against the Idols (1986)
QS (80)
Quentin Skinner, ch. ‘The Origins of the Calvinist Theory of Revolution’ (1980)
DW (83)
David Wooton, ‘The Fear of God in Early Modern Political Theory’ (1983)
JP (10)
J.G.A. Pocock, Barbarism and Religion, vol.5 (2010)
JP (93)
J.G.A. Pocock, ‘A Discourse on Sovereignty’ in Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain (1993)
LS (53)
Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History (1953)
CC (12)
Cesare Cuttica, Sir Robert Filmer and the Patriotic Monarch (2012)
JP (07)
Jon Parkin, Taming the Leviathan (2007)
MG (99)
Mark Goldie, The Reception of Locke’s Politics (1999)
CH (72)
Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down (1972)
IHM (76)
Iain Hampshire-Monk, ‘The Political Theory of the Levellers’ (1976)
HH MT (79)
Harro Höpfl & Martyn Thompson, ‘The History of Contract as a Motif in Political Thought’ (1979)
CP (13)
Christopher Pierson, Just Property, vol.1 (2013)
DG (14)
Denis Galligan, Constitutions and the Classics (2014)
JP (57)
J.G.A. Pocock, Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law (1957)
RB (87)
Reinhard Brandt, ‘Das Titelblatt des Leviathan’ (1987)
QS (18)
Quentin Skinner, From Humanism to Hobbes (2018)
MK JT (14)
Magnus Kristiansson & Johan Tralau, ‘Hobbes Hidden Monster’ (2014)
EKR (23)
Esben Korsgaard Rasmussen, Thomas Hobbes and the Rejection of Objective Being (2023)
In which book did Quentin Skinner find a ‘recogniseably modern, secularised thesis’?
Vindicae Contra Tyrannos (1579)
