Sovereignty (in Hobbes's philosophy) [ Political & Moral philosophy / Philosophy ]
… Concepts > Political & Moral philosophy People > Philosophy Mots-clés Civility Conflict Friendship Sovereignty Violence War The refutation of natural sociability The majority of political treaties, from the age of Cicero and Aristotle to the … for brute force. Hobbes departed radically from this 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 … by nature a social and political animal.’ For Hobbes, the human experience, at its core, was neither that of goodwill towards others nor of solitude, but one of violent sociality: men were in a constant state of conflict and competition, in …
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