Hobbes and the tragedy of democracy
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...
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Main Author: | Holman, Christopher |
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Other Authors: | School of Social Sciences |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2020
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145132 |
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Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
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