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Hobbes, Hegel and modernity

Hobbes, Hegel and modernity Hobbes, Hegel and modernity DR. GARY K. BROWNING and DR. RAIA PROKHOVNIK 1. Introduction Hobbes and Hegel are political theorists whose general approaches to the philos- ophical understanding of political life are in many ways quite distinct from one another. Their major texts, Leviathan ( 1 65 1 ) and the Philosophy of Right ( 1 82 1 ), express divergent conceptions of philosophy and political association. Nonethe- less, Hobbes and Hegel are at one in that they both recognise that the world of values and social interaction in which human beings can be at home is a world which depends crucially upon the inventive, constructive powers of human beings. They share an understanding of the world in which the self is seen as above all a self-defining subject. Ancient thinkers like Plato, the theistic scholars of the Middle Ages like Aquinas, located man in a meaningful cosmic order, where objective values and obliga- tions set limits to man's inventiveness. Hobbes and Hegel, however, see the values, rights and obligations which define man's ethical world as being estab- lished and defined by man himself. This locus for ethical and political values in man's creative powers is a distinctively http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Hobbes Studies Brill

Hobbes, Hegel and modernity

Browning, Gary K.; Prokhovnik, Raia
Hobbes Studies , Volume 8 (1): 88 – Jan 1, 1995
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© 1995 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Hobbes, Hegel and modernity DR. GARY K. BROWNING and DR. RAIA PROKHOVNIK 1. Introduction Hobbes and Hegel are political theorists whose general approaches to the philos- ophical understanding of political life are in many ways quite distinct from one another. Their major texts, Leviathan ( 1 65 1 ) and the Philosophy of Right ( 1 82 1 ), express divergent conceptions of philosophy and political association. Nonethe- less, Hobbes and Hegel are at one in that they both recognise that the world of values and social interaction in which human beings can be at home is a world which depends crucially upon the inventive, constructive powers of human beings. They share an understanding of the world in which the self is seen as above all a self-defining subject. Ancient thinkers like Plato, the theistic scholars of the Middle Ages like Aquinas, located man in a meaningful cosmic order, where objective values and obliga- tions set limits to man's inventiveness. Hobbes and Hegel, however, see the values, rights and obligations which define man's ethical world as being estab- lished and defined by man himself. This locus for ethical and political values in man's creative powers is a distinctively

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