Jeffrey Barnouw is Professor of English and comparative literature in the University of Texas at Austin. He has published numerous articles on Hobbes and written extensively on the history of ideas, especially 17th-and 18th-century thought. His latest research has concentrated on Greek philosophy and literature as well as their role in the later European tradition. His recent [Book Review]

Hobbes Studies 21 (1):109-110 (2008)
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Hobbes conception of reason as computation or reckoning is significantly different in Part I of De Corpore from what I take to be the later treatment in Leviathan. In the late actual computation with words starts with making an affirmation, framing a proposition. Reckoning then has to do with the consequences of propositions, or how they connect the facts, states of affairs or actions which they refer tor account. Starting from this it can be made clear how Hobbes understood the crucial application of this conception to natural law, identified as 'right reason'.

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On the Absence of Moral Goodness in Hobbes’s Ethics.Johan Olsthoorn - 2020 - The Journal of Ethics 24 (2):241-266.

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