LEADER 03433nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910822937203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-12975-9 010 $a1-4008-2822-8 010 $a9786612129759 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400828227 035 $a(CKB)2670000000057521 035 $a(EBL)445528 035 $a(OCoLC)505105613 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000302114 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11251745 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000302114 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10265342 035 $a(PQKB)11320747 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36527 035 $a(DE-B1597)446568 035 $a(OCoLC)979741820 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400828227 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445528 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284248 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL212975 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445528 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000057521 100 $a20070424d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMade with words$b[electronic resource] $eHobbes on language, mind, and politics /$fPhilip Pettit 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (191 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-12929-0 311 $a0-691-14325-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [169]-175) and index. 327 $aMind in nature -- Minds with words -- Using words to ratiocinate -- Using words to personate -- Using words to incorporate -- Words and the warping of appetite -- The state of second, worded nature -- The commonwealth of ordered words. 330 $aHobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. But this work is of immense interest in itself, as Philip Pettit shows in Made with Words, and it critically shapes Hobbes's political philosophy. Pettit argues that it was Hobbes, not later thinkers like Rousseau, who invented the invention of language thesis--the idea that language is a cultural innovation that transformed the human mind. The invention, in Hobbes's story, is a double-edged sword. It enables human beings to reason, commit themselves as persons, and incorporate in groups. But it also allows them to agonize about the future and about their standing relative to one another; it takes them out of the Eden of animal silence and into a life of inescapable conflict--the state of nature. Still, if language leads into this wasteland, according to Hobbes, it can also lead out. It can enable people to establish a commonwealth where the words of law and morality have a common, enforceable sense, and where people can invoke the sanctions of an absolute sovereign to give their words to one another in credible commitment and contract. Written by one of today's leading philosophers, Made with Words is both an original reinterpretation and a clear and lively introduction to Hobbes's thought. 606 $aPHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body$2bisacsh 615 7$aPHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body. 676 $a192 700 $aPettit$b Philip$f1945-$0143675 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822937203321 996 $aMade with words$94044617 997 $aUNINA