Thomas Hobbes on the Family and the State of Nature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4284474 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gordon J Schochet (Rutgers, The State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1967 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 427-445 |
| Publication date | 1967-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Science Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3195 • E-ISSN: 1538-165X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2146773 |
| OpenAlex | W2317894993 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
Among most celebrated passages in literature of political philosophy is Thomas Hobbes' classic description of incommodious, barren, and uncertain life in state of nature: Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continuall feare, and danger of violent death; And life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short. Seventeenth-century critics, assuming that even most rudimentary social unit, family, was excluded from Hobbesian state of nature, often opposed this view of the NATURALL CONDITION of Mankind with patriarchally governed household and insisted that natural warre of every man against every man1 never existed. The reaction of Bishop John Bramhall was typical
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| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,39 |
| Citation span | 1969 - 2025 (57) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |