1st Edition
Rethinking Hobbes and Kant The Role and Consequences of Assumption in Political Theory
By Chia-Yu Chou
Copyright 2017
170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
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Rethinking Hobbes and Kant argues that predominant approaches to the theoretical relationship between Hobbes and Kant have reached conclusions that were pre-digested in assumptions about the ‘isms’ which these two writers are propounding. Chou shows how these assumptions have inhibited commentators from recognising the affinities between Hobbes’s and Kant’s political philosophies, or, if they... Read more
Introduction
Chapter 1: The state as public rationality: Hobbes and Kant on political freedom
Chapter 2: Hobbes and Kant on Social and Legal Equality
Chapter 3: Hobbes and Kant on Independence
Chapter 4: Hobbes and Kant on International Politics
Conclusion
Biography
Chiayu Chou is Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at National Taipei University, Taiwan
