This is the first major work in English to explore at length the meaningcontext aims and vital importance of Thomas Hobbess concepts of the law ofnature and the... » 

This is the first major work in English to explore at length the meaningcontext aims and vital importance of Thomas Hobbess concepts of the law ofnature and the right of nature. Hobbes remains one of the most challenging andcontroversial of early modern philosophers and debates persist about theinterpretation of many of his ideas particularly his views about natural lawand natural right. In this book Perez Zagorin argues that these two conceptsare the twin foundations of the entire structure of Hobbess moral andpolitical thought «