Hobbes Against the Jurists
Sovereignty and Artificial Reason
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20394600 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Larry May (Vanderbilt University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 223-232 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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 | 10.1163/18750257-02502007 |
| OpenAlex | W2002030678 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This paper discusses sovereignty and examines in detail Hobbes’s debates with the two leading legal theorists of his day, Coke and Hale, both Lord Chief Justices of the King’s Bench. I argue that Hobbes came to change his mind somewhat about the desirability of divided sovereignty by the time, near the end of his life, that he wrote the Dialogue . But I also argue that Hobbes should have developed more than a very thin conception of the rule of law. Hobbes should have been more open to the ideas that the jurists of his day were developing, especially the idea that the judiciary should have independent status
Intellectual history · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Popular sovereignty · Sociology · Sovereignty · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |