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Crucial evidence: Hobbes on contractual obligation
Fecha
2013-02Registro en:
Venezia, Luciano Javier; Crucial evidence: Hobbes on contractual obligation; Brill Academic Publishers; Journal of the Philosophy of History; 7; 1; 2-2013; 106-135
1872-261X
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Autor
Venezia, Luciano Javier
Resumen
In this paper, I will introduce the notions of crucial argument and crucial evidence in the philosophy of intellectual history (broadly construed, including the history of political thought). I will use these concepts and take sides in an important controversy in Hobbes studies, namely whether Hobbes holds a prudential or a deontological theory of contractual obligation. Though there is textual evidence for both readings, I will argue that there is especially relevant evidence – crucial evidence – for interpreting Hobbes’s account in a deontological fashion.