Rethinking Hobbes and Kant: The Role and Consequences of Assumption in Political Theory

ISBN-13: 9781032097749 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 170 str.

Chia-Yu Chou

Opis

Thomas Hobbes and Immanuel Kant have often been treated as representative thinkers for two schools and, whatever their views are taken to represent, they are usually considered as occupying opposite poles. While acknowledging these traditional juxtapositions of two of the central figures of political philosophy this book undertakes a detailed analy

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Chiayu Chou is Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at National Taipei University, Taiwan