Prisoner, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Hobbes on Coercion and Consent

IF 0.6 2区哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY

JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS Pub Date : 2024-05-03 DOI:10.1353/jhi.2024.a926146

Daniel Luban

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Abstract

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This article examines Thomas Hobbes’s notorious claim that “fear and liberty are consistent” and therefore that agreements coerced by threat of violence are binding. This view is to a surprising extent inherited from Aristotle, but its political implications became especially striking in the wake of the English Civil War, and Hobbes recast his theory in far-reaching ways between his early works and Leviathan to accommodate it. I argue that Hobbes’s account of coercion is both philosophically safe from the most common objections to it and politically superior to the seemingly commonsensical alternatives that we have inherited from Hobbes’s critics.

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囚犯、水手、士兵、间谍：霍布斯论胁迫与同意

摘要：本文探讨了托马斯-霍布斯臭名昭著的主张，即 "恐惧与自由是一致的"，因此，以暴力相威胁的协议具有约束力。这一观点在令人惊讶的程度上继承自亚里士多德，但其政治影响在英国内战之后变得尤为突出，霍布斯在其早期作品和《利维坦》之间以影响深远的方式重塑了自己的理论，以适应这一观点。我认为，霍布斯关于强制的论述既在哲学上避免了最常见的反对意见，又在政治上优于我们从霍布斯的批评者那里继承的看似符合常理的替代方案。

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