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Revisiting Hobbes: on freedom, political authority and civil disobedience

Aufklärung, 2018
This paper has two main sections. First, I argue that Hobbes was capable of providing a convincing model of political authority that strengthened the absolutist monarchy, due to two main factors: on the one hand, Hobbes’ conceptualization of freedom ...
Marta Nunes da Costa
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Visual Perception as Patterning: Cavendish against Hobbes on Sensation [PDF]

, 2016
Many of Margaret Cavendish’s criticisms of Thomas Hobbes in the Philosophical Letters (1664) relate to the disorder and damage that she holds would result if Hobbesian pressure were the cause of visual perception. In this paper, I argue that her “two men”
Adams, Marcus P.
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Is nondomination a social ideal?

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract According to a prominent strain of thought in the republican tradition, nondomination is a social ideal, in the sense that it can be enjoyed only by living in the right sort of political community with others, rather than by simply withdrawing from others altogether.
Callum Zavos MacRae
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Hobbes and the Two Faces of Ethics [PDF]

, 2018
In this review of Abizadeh's book, I question whether identifying a human 'capacity for reason' really resolves the problems with Hobbes's philosophy's distinctive combination of mechanistic materialism and moral ...
Field, Sandra Leonie
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Beyond Climate Security: Reframing the Climate‐War Nexus Through Bataille's General Economy

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
Abstract The spectre of resource scarcity as a cause of war is dominant in discussions about potential links between climate change and armed conflict. Via engagement with Georges Bataille's theory of a general economy of the biosphere, this article conceptualises the relationship between climate change and war by focusing on resource excess as a ...
Gitte du Plessis
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Constitutional Political Economy and the Nature and Effects of Rights

Kyklos, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 273-284, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Constitutional political economy theory implies that systems of rights can emerge from different processes, but the rights that initially emerge tend to be unequal and to change through time. In some cases, rights may become more equal and universal, but not often. If rights are consequential, then understanding their origins and the political,
Roger D. Congleton
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HOBBES E RELIGIÃO: ponderações sobre a relação entre ateísmo e política

Revista Interdisciplinar em Cultura e Sociedade, 2016
O presente estudo busca compreender o pensamento de Hobbes a partir de sua análise do problema religioso, embora seja o autor do Leviatã desqualificado como ateu, em alguns casos, em função das suas ideias político-religiosas.
Edmilson Menezes
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The Theologico-Political Treatise on Recognition: Spinoza With and Against Hobbes

Journal of Spinoza Studies
This article is the second part of a comparison between Hobbes’s and Spinoza’s theories of recognition as they appear in De Cive and the Tractatus theologico-politicus.
Francesco Toto
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Hobbes - Kant

Politička misao : Croatian political science review, 2005
The author shows the importance of Hobbes’ political thought in formulating the modern state. His contractual argument did not become obsolete as his scientific method. Hobbes breaks from the Aristotelian and natural rights tradition, or rather, he gives the concept of natural right an entirely new meaning. In this context the state of nature, contract
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Schmitt’s Hobbes, Hobbes’s Schmitt

, 2016
This article, originally a preface to the French edition of Carl Schmitt’s book The Leviathan in the State theory of Thomas Hobbes, displays a critical analysis that not only puts the above work in context, but also raises a question about Schmitt’s appropriation of Hobbes, an author who was considered a beacon of light by the former during his whole ...
Balibar, Étienne, Ricci Cernadas (Trad.), Gonzalo   +1 more
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