Sovereignty (in Hobbes's philosophy) [ Political & Moral philosophy / Philosophy ]
… Image Abraham Bosse, ‘Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes’, Wikimedia Commons, 1651. Résumé Thomas Hobbes’ rejection of the social nature of man is the foundation of his philosophy on the origin of State, and provides a rationale for his theory of … philosophical tradition in his interpretation of the civil wars that racked England, giving his own analysis of human nature, and established his theory of sovereignty, that of a social covenant guaranteed by the sword. ‘The greatest part … though received by most, is yet certainly False, and an Errour proceeding from our too slight contemplation of Humane Nature.‘ ( De Cive , I, 2, 90) The English translation of Aristotle’s Politics was published in 1598. In The Elements of …
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