Chwaszcza, Christine 
ORCID: 0000-0003-3847-3148
(2012).
The Seat of Sovereignty: Hobbes on the Artificial Person of the Commonwealth or State.
Hobbes Studies, 25 (2).
pp. 123-142.
Brill.
ISSN 0921-5891
Abstract
Is sovereignty in Hobbes the power of a person or of an office? This article defends the thesis that it is the latter. The interpretation is based on an analysis of Hobbes’s version of the social contract in Leviathan. Pace Quentin Skinner, it will be argued that the person whom Hobbes calls “sovereign” is not a person but the office of government.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-455316 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1163/18750257-02502001 | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Hobbes Studies | ||||||||
| Volume: | 25 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 123-142 | ||||||||
| Date: | 2012 | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Brill | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0921-5891 | ||||||||
| Language: | English | ||||||||
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 8: Philosophie > Philosophisches Seminar | ||||||||
| Subjects: | Philosophy | ||||||||
| Refereed: | No | ||||||||
| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/45531 |
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