Hobbesian Sovereignty and the Rights of Subjects: Absolutism Undermined?
Hobbes, in his political writing, is generally understood to be arguing for absolutism. I argue that despite apparently supporting absolutism, Hobbes, in Leviathan , also undermines that absolutism in at least two and possibly three ways. First, he makes sovereignty conditional upon the sovereign's...
| Publicado en: | Hobbes Studies Vol. 32; no. 2; pp. 209 - 231 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2019
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