Hobbes's Concept of Multitude
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20394287 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Omar Astorga (0000-0002-9917-7951, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-14 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hobbes Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0921-5891 • E-ISSN: 1875-0257 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/187502511x563781 |
| OpenAlex | W2088098466 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In this brief article I expound some uses that Hobbes gave to the concept of multitude. Firstly, I explain the distinction between "people" and "multitude", the confusion of which was regarded in De Cive as a cause of sedition. The plural and disunited character of the multitude is highlighted, in comparison with the unity that constitutes the people. Secondly, I show that Hobbes, beyond the cited distinction, makes a relevant use in Leviathan of the principle of representation, in order to show the way in which multitude becomes State. Finally, I highlight the two-fold use given by the author to such concept: on the one hand, by attributing a theoretical role to it, which should allow thinking of the rational construction of the State; on the other, by showing the historical reality of multitude, turned into a source of madness and sedition
Confusion · Epistemology · Linguistics · Multitude · Plural · Political science · Politics · Sedition · Sociology · Law · Marxism and Critical Theory · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Psychology · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |