Sovereignty (in Hobbes's philosophy) [ Political & Moral philosophy / Philosophy ]
… capacity to live in society, with reason and its manifestation, language, substituting for brute force. Hobbes departed radically from this philosophical tradition in his interpretation of the civil wars that racked England, giving his … nature, and established his theory of sovereignty, that of a social covenant guaranteed by the sword. ‘The greatest part of those men who have written ought concerning Commonwealths, either suppose, or require us, or beg of us to believe, … substitute, fear, that triggers the series of reciprocal compromises necessary for peace. For Hobbes, language was not part of the humanist utopia of a sociability based on civil conversation, but a superlative, sophisticated weapon, the …
Civility | Conflict | Friendship | Sovereignty | Violence | War
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