Thomas Hobbes has long had the reputation of being a pessimistic atheist, who saw human nature as evil and proposed a totalitarian state to subdue human failings. In this study, Richard Tuck re-evaluates Hobbes' philosophy, revealing him to have been concerned with the refutation of scepticism.[...]

This is an historical account of the formative period of modern theories of international law. It examines the arguments over the moral basis for war, and links the debates to the writings of theorists such as Hobbes, Locke, Kant, and Rousseau.[...]

One individual's contribution to a large collective project - such as voting in a national election or contributing to a public television fund-raising campaign - often seems negligible. A striking proposition of contemporary economics and political science is that it would be an exercise of reason,[...]