TY - JOUR
T1 - Complex Causation, Reason, Freedom
T2 - Rethinking the Politics in Hobbes
AU - Frost, Samantha
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Samantha Frost, 2024.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - In this symposium response, I suggest that a key to thinking about the implications of Hobbes’s materialism for his arguments about ethics, politics, and law is to trace his efforts to defend complex causation. I suggest that when we read Hobbes as trying to hold onto complex causation as an ontological and epistemological fact, we have to rethink the relationship between freedom, reason, sovereignty, and the law.
AB - In this symposium response, I suggest that a key to thinking about the implications of Hobbes’s materialism for his arguments about ethics, politics, and law is to trace his efforts to defend complex causation. I suggest that when we read Hobbes as trying to hold onto complex causation as an ontological and epistemological fact, we have to rethink the relationship between freedom, reason, sovereignty, and the law.
KW - Hobbes
KW - Materialism
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U2 - 10.1163/18750257-bja10086
DO - 10.1163/18750257-bja10086
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85207861090
SN - 0921-5891
VL - 37
SP - 187
EP - 196
JO - Hobbes Studies
JF - Hobbes Studies
IS - 2
ER -