STRAUSS AND THE MORAL ANTITHESIS ARGUMENT AGAINST SCIENTISM IN HOBBES' PHILOSOPHY
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Hobbes, Vanity, Civil philosophy, Mechanism, FearAbstract
The aim of this article is to provide a critique of Strauss' claims to determine a moral foundation for Hobbes' civil philosophy. It is therefore a question of discussing the determinations of man's behavior derived from a natural tendency imposed upon him. In this way, the viability of the link between natural philosophy and civil philosophy is exposed in order to determine Hobbes' commitment to the terms of the mechanism of his time. Strauss' argument that the principle of self-preservation is based on a moral antithesis between vanity and the fundamentally just fear of violent death is thus made impossible.
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BERNS, W. Judicial review and the rights and laws of nature. The Supreme CourtReview, v. 1982, p. 49-83, 1982.
BLITS, J. H. Hobbesian fear. Political Theory, v. 17, n. 3, p. 417-431, 1989.
BRANDT, F. Thomas Hobbes’ mechanical conception of nature. London: Hachette, 1928.
FRATESCHI, Y. A física da política: Hobbes contra Aristóteles. Campinas: Editora da Unicamp, 2008.
GREENLEAF, W. H. Hobbes: o problema da interpretação. In: QUIRINO, C. G.; SOUZA, M. T. S. (org.). O pensamento político clássico. São Paulo: T. A. Queiroz, 1980.
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_______________. Leviathan, or the matter, forme and power of a Commonwealth ecclesiasticall and civil. Ed. C. B. Macpherson. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1968.
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KIDDER, J. Hobbes’s “just man”. Reason Papers, n. 8, p. 1-15, Summer 1982.
LEIVAS, C. A paixão política do medo na concepção de Hobbes. Dissertatio, v. 33, p. 341-353, Inverno 2011.
PACCHI, A. Hobbes and the passions. Topoi, v. 6, n. 2, p. 111-9, 1987.
POGREBINSCHI, T. O problema da obediência em Thomas Hobbes. Bauru: EDUSC, 2003.
SKINNER, Q. Razão e retórica na filosofia de Hobbes. São Paulo: UNESP, 1999.
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STAUFFER, D. Strauss’s discussion of Hobbes in “What is political philosophy?”. Perspectives on Political Science, v. 39, n. 2, p. 87-91, 2010.
STRAUSS, L. A filosofia política de Hobbes: suas bases e sua gênese. São Paulo: É realizações, 2016.
TOTO, F. Individuo, potere e relazione in Thomas Hobbes. La Società Degli Individui, v. 19, n. 55, p. 143-158, 2016.
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