Personality, authority, and self-esteem in Hobbes’s Leviathan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12903161 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lars Vinx (0000-0003-0973-9613, University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 135-155 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Intellectual History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-6977 • E-ISSN: 1749-6985 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17496977.2021.2003002 |
| OpenAlex | W4210878775 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 29 |
This paper offers a novel interpretation of the theory of the personality of the state put forward in Hobbes’s Leviathan. Hobbes’s account of political representation does not conceive of the state as a “purely artificial person” or “person by fiction,” as Quentin Skinner and David Runciman have argued. Rather, Hobbes regards the state as an artificial person that is closely analogous to natural persons. The state’s integrity as well as the limits of its legitimate authority are based on normative constraints on impersonation that apply to a person’s self-representation as much as to political representation by sovereign authority. These constraints, it is argued here, result from what Hobbes considers to be the proper measure of individual self-esteem, a measure that eschews both inordinate pride and excessive humility
Epistemology · Humility · Interpretation (philosophy · LEVIATHAN (cipher · Natural (archaeology · Personality · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science · State of nature · History · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Psychology · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |