Hobbes & the Coleman Thesis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6356785 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Terry Heinrichs (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 647-666 |
| Publication date | 1984-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3497 • E-ISSN: 1744-1684 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3234634 |
| OpenAlex | W2323697945 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In his well-known book, Hobbes and America: Exploring the Constitutional Foundations (1977), Frank Coleman characterized Hobbes' political theory as liberal democratic and, therefore, as an appropriate model for understanding American liberalism. In this article, Professor Heinrichs contends that Hobbes' theory is neither liberal nor democratic, and that it is actually in opposition to, not in harmony with, liberal thought and practice in America
Classical liberalism · Democracy · Democratic Theory · Epistemology · Harmony (color · Law and economics · Liberalism · Opposition (politics · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1990 - 1990 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |