Hobbes on Property: Between Legal Certainty and Sovereign Discretion

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Hobbes Studies Pub Date : 2021-03-15 DOI:10.1163/18750257-BJA10024

L. Apeldoorn

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Hobbes treats individual property as regulated by stable law, yet dependent on the arbitrary will of the sovereign. In this paper I catalogue the different definitions of property present in his main political and legal works – The Elements of Law (1640), De Cive (1642, 2nd ed. 1647), Leviathan (1651) and A Dialogue between a philosopher and a student (1681) – with the aim of showing how he attempted to square those commitments. I record how the definitions of property affect his views about how sovereigns hold property, the nature of the liability of subjects to having their property confiscated by the sovereign, and the legal conflicts that may arise between subjects and their rulers regarding such confiscations.

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霍布斯论财产：介于法律确定性与主权自由裁量权之间

霍布斯认为个人财产受稳定的法律管制，但又依赖于君主的任意意志。在本文中，我将他主要的政治和法律著作——《法律要素》(1640年)、《论公民》(1642年，第2版，1647年)、《利维坦》(1651年)和《哲学家与学生的对话》(1681年)——中出现的财产的不同定义编目，目的是展示他是如何试图平衡这些承诺的。我记录了财产的定义如何影响他对君主如何持有财产的看法，臣民对其财产被君主没收的责任的性质，以及臣民和统治者之间关于这种没收可能产生的法律冲突。

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Hobbes Studies PHILOSOPHY-

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0.70

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33.30%

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期刊介绍： Hobbes Studies is an international peer reviewed scholarly journal. Its interests are twofold; first, in publishing research about the philosophical, political, historical, literary, and scientific matters related to Thomas Hobbes"s own thought, at the beginning of the modern state and the rise of science, and also in a comparison of his views to other important thinkers; second, because of Hobbes"s enduring influence in stimulating social and political theory, the journal is interested in publishing such discussions. Articles and occasional book reviews are peer reviewed. The International Hobbes Association is associated with the journal but submissions are open.