Hobbes and the Indirect Workings of Political Consent.
This paper brings to light an unexplored aspect of Hobbes's argument that political authority rests upon subjects' consent. Consent enacts a transfer of subjects' right of nature to the sovereign, yet she already possesses a natural right to everything. What moral difference, then, does this make to...
| Publicado en: | Hobbes Studies Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 155 - 176 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2022
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