Hobbes: filozofija i politika
Hobbes: Philosophy and Politics

Summary/Abstract: Like most of the great Western political thinkers, Thomas Hobbes built and expounded his political theory within the context of a philosophical world-outlook. Consequently, every attempt at analysis and interpretation of this political thought has to begin with an analysis of the relationship between his political doctrines and his philosophical theories. This analysis of Hobbes's various formulations and interpretations of this relationship shows that he did not have a single, well thought-out and coherent conception of the epistemological status of his political theory and its place within his system of philosophy, but rather two considerably different conceptions. On the one hand. Hobbes considered his political theory a part of a closely knit, deductively constructed philosophical system, founded upon extremely abstract, metaphysical theories about matter and motion. On the other hand, he also regarded it as a theory founded upon a set of independent first principles of Its own — principles concerning the nature of man, which according to him, were »by experience known to all men«. Both of these conceptions are equally relevant for reconstruction and interpretation of Hobbes's political theory, for both of them determine to a certain extent its epistemological status, and also its content.

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