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Meanwhile Thomas Hobbes of Britain articulated more fully the vested interests of states in his work Leviathan. An example of English foreign policy that embodied the developing understandings of state's interests in the 17th century were their dealings with the Dutch. They had supported the Dutch in their war of independence against Spain, partly because they were coreligionists and partly ...
Vor 12 Stunden · Footnote 2 Authors such as Jean Bodin, Justus Lipsius, Hugo Grotius, and Thomas Hobbes interpreted toleration against the backdrop of absolute sovereignty. In developing the idea of absolute sovereignty, they conceived religion as an important foundation of the commonwealth as it induced obedience and civil peace (Tooley 1955 ; Tuck 1988 , 30; Hobbes 2003 , 47–48; Lipsius 2004 , 241–247).
Vor einem Tag · Tyrannical nations and governments — Remember how Thomas Hobbes named his 1651 treatise on the power of the state Leviathan? He explicitly quoted Job 41:33 and focused his work on defending an absolute monarchy. Before Hobbes, Egypt was compared to a sea monster (Isaiah 30:7; Ezekiel 29:3; 32:2), as was the empire of Babylon (Isaiah 14:4, 20).
Vor einem Tag · Thomas Hobbes instead founded a contractarian theory of legal positivism on what all men could agree upon: what they sought (happiness) was subject to contention, but a broad consensus could form around what they feared, such as violent death at the hands of another. The natural law was how a rational human being, seeking to survive and prosper, would act. Natural law, therefore, was ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Als Gründe für seine Zweifel am Zögern nennt Heller einerseits, dass im Text problematische Prämissen Carl Schmitts reproduziert würden – dies insbesondere in der Deutung von Thomas Hobbes im ideengeschichtlichen Teil von „Paradoxien der Ausnahmezeit“ – und dass andererseits der Ausnahmezustand Eile und Weile sei. Das Zögern gehöre somit selbst dem Ausnahmezustand an und sei zu ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Ed Satalia State College In 1651, the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes published “Leviathan,” in which he argued that a government grounded in absolute authoritarianism, with an associated ...
Vor 5 Tagen · This essay about Thomas Hobbes’s influence on modern governance explores his seminal work “Leviathan,” which continues to shape political discourse. It into Hobbes’s depiction of human nature and the social contract, highlighting the enduring impact of his ideas on state authority and individual liberties. While acknowledging his ...
