Jelen tanulmány a Hobbes-i természeti állapot négy aspektusát helyezi reflektorfénybe. Egyrészt, arra a kérdésre keresi a választ, hogy vajon tekinthetjük-e a Hobbes által ábrázolt eredeti állapotot ...időtlen helyzetnek, amelyben nem az időtartamon, hanem csupán a szerző által felépített logikai konstrukció kimenetén van a hangsúly, vagy időtartammal rendelkezőnek kell (lehet) ezt az állapotot tekintenünk, amelynek sajátos fejlődési íve is van. Másrészt, az eredeti állapotba helyezett embert vizsgálja meg annak érdekében, hogy megállapíthassuk a természetes környezet emberének valóban „természetes” voltát, és e kettő (ember és állapot természetessége) közötti összhangot. Harmadrészt, az eredeti helyzet emberei között fennálló lehetséges viszonyok tanulmányozása képezi az elemzés tárgyát. Negyedrészt, az előző kérdéshez közvetlenül kapcsolódva, a természeti állapot többféle értelmezésének bemutatására kerül sor. E szempontok kibontásával – úgy tűnik – jobban rávilágíthatunk a Hobbes-i természeti állapot ambivalens jellegére is.
The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes offers a new interpretation of Thomas Hobbes's response to the English Revolution. By focusing on his religious thought, it debunks the standard view of him as a ...royalist, and recovers his sympathies with the religious projects of the 1640s and 1650s. This reinterpretation culminates with an exploration of Hobbes's surprising sympathies with Oliver Cromwell and his supporters. By placing Thomas Hobbes within fresh contexts, Professor Collins offers a new angle of vision on the religious significance of the English Revolution itself.
Golem and Leviathan. Judaic Sources of Thomas Hobbes's Political Theology In the article, the Authors point out that Hobbes's political philosophy (and in fact theology) in the heterodox layer is ...inspired not only by Judeo-Christianity, but also by rabbinic Judaism. According to them, only adopting such a Judaic and in a sense syncretistic perspective enabled Hobbes to come to such radical conclusions, hostile towards the Catholic and Calvinist conceptions of the state and the Church. In their argument they focused on three elements that are most important for Hobbesian concept of sovereignty: the covenant between Jahwe and the Chosen People, the concept of the Kingdom of God, salvation and the afterlife, and the concept of a messiah.
Certain English writers of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, whom scholars often associate with classical republicanism, were not, in fact, hostile to liberalism. Indeed, these thinkers ...contributed to a synthesis of liberalism and modern republicanism. As this book argues, Marchamont Nedham, James Harrington, Henry Neville, Algernon Sidney, and John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, the co-authors of a series of editorials entitled Cato's Letters, provide a synthesis that responds to the demands of both republicans and liberals by offering a politically engaged citizenry as well as the protection of individual rights. The book also reinterprets the writings of Machiavelli and Hobbes to show that each contributed in a fundamental way to the formation of this liberal republicanism.
In this article, I consider how organisations within ‘Alternative’ Food Networks might help us to enact a more-than-human ethic of care in the Anthropocene. Drawing on the diverse economies framework ...of J.K. Gibson-Graham (2006a, 2006b) as well as readings in the feminist ethics of care literature, I explore an ethnographic study of three community supported agriculture schemes in the north-west of England. While there has been surprisingly little scholarly work linking food and the Anthropocene, much more has been made of the relationship between the food system and Anthropogenic processes of climate change. The orthodox responses to the problems that climate change may bring about are undergirded by Hobbesian visions and the perceived viability of instrumental, technocratic ‘fixes’ that are, for many reasons, worthy of critique. Broadening our viewpoint, and recognising that the Anthropocene and climate change require different responses, I argue that AFNs can provide a more hopeful perspective in how we might understand our existence within a more-than-human world. Rather than reading AFNs through analytical binaries as either reformist or radical entities merely confronting the ills of the food system, I develop an account that instead understands them as open-ended and tantalisingly different forms of organisation (Stock et al., 2015b) that can play a central role in fostering a more-than-human ethics of care for the Anthropocene.
According to the commonly accepted view, Thomas Hobbes began his intellectual career as a humanist, but his discovery, in midlife, of the wonders of geometry initiated a critical transition from ...humanism to the scientific study of politics. In Mortal Gods, Ted Miller radically revises this view, arguing that Hobbes never ceased to be a humanist. While previous scholars have made the case for Hobbes as humanist by looking to his use of rhetoric, Miller rejects the humanism/mathematics dichotomy altogether and shows us the humanist face of Hobbes’s affinity for mathematical learning and practice. He thus reconnects Hobbes with the humanists who admired and cultivated mathematical learning—and with the material fruits of Great Britain’s mathematical practitioners. The result is a fundamental recasting of Hobbes’s project, a recontextualization of his thought within early modern humanist pedagogy and the court culture of the Stuart regimes. Mortal Gods stands as a new challenge to contemporary political theory and its settled narratives concerning politics, rationality, and violence.
ABSTRACT
The concept of equity is clearly important in Thomas Hobbes's philosophy. In his writings he repeatedly employs it in significant load bearing ways, particularly in the areas of civil law ...and governance. Equity is, however, not directly addressed in a sustained way in his core works and—perhaps even more frustratingly—it is often applied in ways which ask more questions about the concept than they answer. This presents an impediment to accurately understanding what equity really means to Hobbes. His late Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England (1681) seems to offer a solution to this challenge. This work contains extensive discussion on equity, including on the application of equity in relationship to absolute rule. However, equity in the Dialogue is not always the same as what we see in Hobbes's core works. The question is, did Hobbes change his mind on equity? This article argues no. Hobbes did not change his mind on equity; rather, within the Dialogue he is engaging with a common understanding of the term as it existed in English law. Consequently, Hobbes's discussions here should not inform us about how equity fits into his philosophy.
Is it possible for an individual that has gone out of being to come back into being again? The English Aristotelian, Thomas White, argued that it is not. Thomas Hobbes disagreed and used the case of ...the Ship of Theseus to argue that individuals that have gone out of being may come back into being again. This paper provides the first systematic account of their arguments. It is doubtful that Hobbes has a consistent case against White. Still, his criticism may have prompted White to clarify his views on identity over time in his later work.
This paper problematizes in the light of a conservative canon the themes of humanity's planning and the prevention of its collapse represented in the third season of the HBO series Westworld (2016-). ...In particular, the Rehoboam system is analyzed from the ideas of Thomas Hobbes, Edmund Burke, Joseph de Maistre, and the Founding Fathers of the United States. Through a content analysis of the eight episodes of the season, it is argued that Rehoboam is the culminating machine of the counterrevolution. Dos momentos evidencian estos cambios: cuando Dolores procede a filtrar todos los datos de Incite (rompiendo el equilibrio hacia la oscuridad), y cuando Engerraund Serac logra la absorción financiera de Delos por parte de Incite (volviéndose hacia el equilibrio, el control y el orden) (ver Fig. 2).
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