THE GROUNDS OF THE POLITICAL REPRESENTATION IN THOMAS HOBBES’ LEVIATHAN Cover Image

LE FONDEMENT DE LA REPRESENTATION POLITIQUE DANS LE LEVIATHAN DE THOMAS HOBBES
THE GROUNDS OF THE POLITICAL REPRESENTATION IN THOMAS HOBBES’ LEVIATHAN

Author(s): Laura Ilinescu
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: Hobbes; Leviathan; politics; representation; natural philosophy

Summary/Abstract: The Grounds of the Political representation in Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan. My paper focuses on the concept of political representation in Th. Hobbes’ Leviathan. It tackles the question of a supposed link between the philosophy of nature and the political philosophy made through the various epistemological meanings of representation. The final thesis advances that the theoretical structure of Leviathan was conceived as based on the political representation with a meaning that can be traced back to that of mental representation.

  • Issue Year: 54/2009
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 61-81
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: French