Hobbes and the tragedy of democracy

• Main Author: Holman, Christopher
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Political science::Political theory; Hobbes; Contingency
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145132
• Institution: 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...