TY - JOUR
AU - Anderson, Jeremy
AB -  95 The Role of Education in Political Stability JEREMY ANDERSON Currently the dominant interpretation of Hobbes in the field of moral and politi- cal philosophy is as a social contract theorist: that he legitimates moral rules and sovereign power by arguing that we would agree we are better off obeying a sov- ereign than living in a state of nature, and that we are best off if that sovereign is an absolute monarch. There are interesting alternatives to this reading of Hobbes-Warrender's divine-command interpretation and Boonin-Vail's virtue theory interpretation, to name just two-but it is not my purpose here to debate their relative merits. Rather, I want to comment on one of the main features of the social contract view, namely, the means of maintaining political stability. According to the contract view the state of nature can be seen as a prisoner's dilemma or some similar game situation in which the players find it rational to ' break their agreements and consequently generate a war of all against all. The solution is to set up a sovereign who will make it rational to cooperate, and the way the sovereign does this is by threatening them with punishment if 
TI - The Role of Education in Political Stability
JF - Hobbes Studies
DO - 10.1163/187502503X00063
DA - 2003-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/brill/the-role-of-education-in-political-stability-XthTbKsAnh
SP - 95
EP - 104
VL - 16
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -