Writings on Common Law and Hereditary Right

by Thomas Hobbes

Book Overview

This volume in the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes contains
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A dialogue between a philosopher and a student, of the common laws of England
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, edited by Alan Cromartie, supplemented by the important fragment "Questions relative to Hereditary Right," discovered and edited by Quentin Skinner. As a critique of common law by a great philosopher, the
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should be essential reading for anybody interested...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198237022
• ISBN13: 9780198237020
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"