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O Leviatã de Thomas Hobbes
… norteados pela perspectiva teórica de Thomas Hobbes, mais precisamente, pela obra O Leviatã, do mesmo autor. Tendo como vetor principal o absolutismo, faremos, para um melhor entendimento, um contraponto com o liberalismo, além de contextualizarmos as ideias do autor. Levantaremos alguns …
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A study in the originality of Hobbes' political theories
… of W. R. Sorley asserting the originality of Hobbes arein conformity with the statements made by Hobbes himself; and togetherwith many others of similar purport, they interested me in the problemof Hobbes' originality, a problem which it is the purpose of this studyto examine. That these …
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Thomas Hobbes and the reception of early-modern Epicureanism
… within the philosophical system of Thomas Hobbes in general; it examines all aspects of Hobbesian philosophy, viz. first philosophy, physics, anthropology, ethics, and politics within the context of the revival of early-modem Epicureanism and atomism in England as well as Europe. Thereby, …
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Comparing Hobbes's Gratitude and Aristotle's Magnanimity
Hobbes's natural law of gratitude needs to be brought back into perspective when reading his political works. Often when reading Hobbes, many use his depiction of human nature and natural rights to demonstrate the innate propensity toward unsociability. However, contrary to this presumption, Hobbes …
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The politics of the confessional imagination, from Calvin to Hobbes
In this dissertation, I consider the nature and application of theories of the imagination by, especially English, Protestants, over the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. I make four significant observations. First, I argue that English Protestant philosophical treatments of the …
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Civil War and the Government of Factions in Hobbes and Foucault
… precisely to his philosophical opponent, Thomas Hobbes, to do so. I argue that civil war is philosophically undertheorized primarily because insufficient attention has been paid to the first term in the conjunction—the 'civil' determination of civil war—and a reconstruction of Hobbes’s conception …
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Reading Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus as a political treatise between Hobbes and Locke
… the contemporary political treatises of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan (1651) and John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government (1689). The three-part argument asks what is the state of nature, what is the natural man, and what is the just political system that emerges from these definitions. …
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The Constellations of Empiricism, New Science, and Mind in Hobbes, Locke, and Hume
… central chapters are case studies, looking at Hobbes, Locke, and Hume. Each chapter analyses an aspect of the mental as it is explained within a version of the framework created by that thinker’s particular constellation of the New Science and empiricism. In evaluating the adequacy of these …
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ΠΡΟΒΛΗΜΑΤΑ ΣΥΣΤΑΣΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΟΥ ΣΕ ΘΕΩΡΙΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΟΥ ΣΥΜΒΟΛΑΙΟΥ (THOMAS HOBBES-JOHN LOCKE)
… TWO MAJOR POLITICAL AND STATE THEORIES (THOMAS HOBBES-JOHN LOCKE) OF THE NASCENT BOURGEOIS SOCIETY DURING THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. THE PURPOSE OF THIS RECONSTRUCTION IS TO LOCATE THEIR PEMISES AS SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORIES, AS WELL ASTO ANALYZE PROBLEMS OF SOVERIEGNTY, THE FORMATION OF CONSENT …
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The ancient notion of self-preservation in the theories of Hobbes and Spinoza
… of promoting their well-being, came to influence Hobbes’s and Spinoza’s later accounts of natural, animal and social behaviour. The first section presents the ancient accounts of natural and animal bodily tendencies and explores the specific ways in which the Aristotelian, Stoic and Epicurean …
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Politics in Hobbes' mechanics: a case study in the sociology of scientific knowledge
… an examination of the development of Thomas Hobbes' mechanics in light of Hobbes' political views and the political context. Hobbes provides a good subject for research in the sociology of scientific knowledge for at least two reasons. First, Hobbes is a good case for examining the …
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The A Priori Nature of the Political: Democracy and Scientific Method in Thomas Hobbes
My dissertation provides a treatment of Hobbes's politics in light of his conception of scientific method. The scholarship devoted to these two components of Hobbes's thought, that is his account of scientific method and his political philosophy, have largely existed in isolation from one another. …
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Political metaphysics : God, determinism, and constructivism in the thought of Thomas Hobbes and Gerrard Winstanley
… of the seventeenth-century contemporaries Thomas Hobbes and Gerrard \v'instanley. It claims that a proper understanding of their respective political theories relies upon a thorough and nuanced understanding of the nature of the theology that they are positing. I argue that the key to …
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