Nature, Desire, and the Law: On Libertinism and Early Modern Legal Theory.
A central concept in early modern political thought, especially in England, is the notion of the "state of nature." Thomas Hobbes and, one generation later, John Locke, use it as the "clean slate" or "ground zero" for contractualist theories on political sovereignty. More than just a condition in wh...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 12; no. 2; pp. 133 - 146 |
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2012
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