Reclaiming the Rights of the Hobbesian Subject

1. Introduction
Eleanor Curran

Part I. The Historical Context of Hobbes’s Political Theory

2. Examining the Orthodoxy — Hobbes and Royalism
Eleanor Curran

3. The Political Context — Taking Sides?
Eleanor Curran

Part II. Hobbes’s Theory of Rights: The Textual Argument

4. Liberties and Claims — Rights and Duties
Eleanor Curran

5. The Full Right to Self-Preservation and Sovereign Duties
Eleanor Curran

Part III. Hobbes and Theories of Natural Law and Natural Rights

6. The Natural Rights Tradition — With or Without Hobbes?
Eleanor Curran

Part IV. Hobbes’s Theory of Rights — A Modern Secular Theory

7. Current Discussions of Hobbesian Rights. The Distorting Lens of Hohfeld
Eleanor Curran

8. Conclusion: Towards a Hobbesian Theory of Rights
Eleanor Curran

Keywords: Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy