Hobbes and the tragedy of democracy

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Holman, Christopher
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Social Sciences
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2020
• الموضوعات: Social sciences::Political science::Political theory; Hobbes; Contingency
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145132
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

This article reconsiders Thomas Hobbes's critique of the democratic sovereign form from the standpoint of what it identifies as the latter's most important ontological conditions: the lack of a transcendent source of fundamental law, and a natural human equality that renders all individual...