Essays on Thomas Hobbes
“Beneath this mask there is an idea Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof” (V, from V for Vendetta, 2006) V for Vendetta, directed by James McTeigue is one of those rare films that relies on historical allusions, symbols and philosophy in each and every one of its moments. The film culminates with a revolution against...
Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau are two of the most recognized 17th and 18th century, Western canon political philosophers. In Hobbes’s seminal work, Leviathan, he lays out his piece by piece conception of the world whereby man living in constant fear can escape the state of nature and find peace under the sovereign. In the...
Ever thought of what it would be like to live in a world where you are totally free to do whatever you want with no one to control you? Sounds magnificent right? How the life of the humans in the state of nature where no authoritative power exists would be is one of the most...
Why, according to Hobbes, should subjects obey the Sovereign? Prima facie, the reason why subjects should obey the Sovereign according to Thomas Hobbes is a relatively simple one, for protection against their fellow man. Hobbes himself writes in Leviathan that without their Sovereign, the natural state of things is simply ‘warre of every one against...