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El contrato social en Hobbes: ¿absolutista o liberal? Hobbes’ Social Contract: Absolutist or Liberal?

open access: yesEstudios Políticos, 2010
En este artículo se presentan los elementos centrales del modelo contractualista clásico de legitimación del Estado, expuesto por Thomas Hobbes en el Leviatán. Se cuestiona la interpretación propuesta por Leo Strauss sobre la filosofía política de Hobbes,
Francisco Cortés Rodas
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Descartes's Eudaimonism: The Virtuously Content Life

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines René Descartes's engagement with the ethical tradition of eudaimonism, which considers happiness or flourishing (eudaimonia) the highest good. On the one hand, Descartes can be read as an eudaimonist because he is in rich dialogue with certain ancient thinkers (e.g., Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus and the Stoics) and shares ...
Brandon Smith
wiley   +1 more source

O CONTRATUALISMO E O ESTADO: HOBBES VERSUS LOCKE?

open access: yesRevista Processus de Estudos de Gestão, Jurídicos e Financeiros, 2018
O presente estudo pretende propor uma nova leitura sobre a teoria do con-trato social de Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) e John Locke (1632-1704). Assim, serão levantadas algumas questões que envolvem os pontos de contato entre as duas teorias, buscando ...
Me. Ana Carolina Borges de Oliveira   +1 more
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Is Hobbes Really an Antirealist about Accidents?

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2018
In Metaphysical Themes, Robert Pasnau interprets Thomas Hobbes as an anti-realist about all accidents in general. In opposition to Pasnau, we argue that Hobbes is a realist about some accidents (e.g., motion and magnitude).
Sahar Joakim, C. P. Ragland
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 480-493, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
wiley   +1 more source

The Concept of Categoricity

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 3, Page 268-275, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Despite the fact that the concept of categoricity is ubiquitous in contemporary metaphysics, it is hard to find a suitable characterization of categoricity. I hold that the absence of such a characterization is responsible for much confusion and debate regarding categorical properties and their relationship to dispositions.
Sungho Choi
wiley   +1 more source

Buchanan and the Social Contract: Coordination Failures and the Atrophy of Property Rights

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, Volume 93, Issue 1, Page 128-141, July 2026.
ABSTRACT James Buchanan advocated that societies should be based on a social contract. He rejected anarchy, seeing it as a “Hobbesian jungle” that calls for government intervention to maintain social order. He also opposed theories of spontaneous order. These views led to debates about the compatibility of Buchanan's works with classical liberalism and
Stefano Dughera, Alain Marciano
wiley   +1 more source

The State Itself as a Vulnerable Subject? Existential Resilience under International Law

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 4, Page 531-561, July 2026.
This paper proposes a new framework for analysis of the law governing State continuity, with particular reference to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) threatened with legal extinction as a result of rising sea‐levels. Prevailing wisdom suggests that if States were to lose their inhabitable land or permanently resident populations, their status ...
Alex Green (文浩航)
wiley   +1 more source

Thomas Hobbes, fundador de la filosofía política moderna

open access: yesEstudios de Derecho, 1975
Thomas Hobbes, fundador de la filosofía política moderna.
Hernán Valencia Restrepo
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Power after power: Arendt on power accumulation in Leviathan [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini
Hannah Arendt claims that Thomas Hobbes argued for power accumulation, offering what she describes as the "blueprint" for 19th-century imperialism. Her reading is often criticized for being biased and hostile towards Hobbes.
Kravanja Aljoša
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