Hobbes and the paradoxes of political origins:

In a long final chapter, where the book applies its paradox-focused method, Thomas Hobbes' theory of the advent and purpose of government is shown to portray a situation where X must antecede Y and where Y must antecede X. In a Hobbesian world, people's interpretations of the Laws of Natur...

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Beteilige Person: Kramer, Matthew H. 1959- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Basingstoke [u.a.] Macmillan [u.a.] 1997
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung:In a long final chapter, where the book applies its paradox-focused method, Thomas Hobbes' theory of the advent and purpose of government is shown to portray a situation where X must antecede Y and where Y must antecede X. In a Hobbesian world, people's interpretations of the Laws of Nature must substantially coincide before any social contract can emerge, but interpretations of the Laws of Nature cannot substantially overlap until the social contract has bred its harmonizing results. Hobbes's political philosophy thus powerfully exemplifies the basic structure of paradoxes
Abstract:This book expounds an analytical method that focuses on paradoxes - a method originally associated with deconstructive philosophy, but bearing little resemblance to the various techniques that have come to be labelled as 'deconstruction' in literary studies. After delineating the basic logical form of every genuine paradox (in which a proposition is true if and only if it is false), the book distinguishes its paradox-focused mode of inquiry from other lines of inquiry that are often conflated with it
Umfang:XII, 144 S.
ISBN:0333683692
0312165498