Equality in Hobbes with Reference to Aristotle
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6398179 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin A Bertman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 534-544 |
| Publication date | 1976-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0034670500032563 |
| OpenAlex | W1966394965 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
It is a policy of Hobbes' polemic to state the crucial point or principle in the boldest form before embarking on qualifications. In just this spirit he asserts that men are equal by nature. Fifty variations among men in what is ordinarily considered to differentiate significantly—mental or physical powers—become unimportant for the matter at hand: politics. Thus, with a swift and elegant force, Hobbes turns the reader's mind away from the tradition of Aristotle's Politics wherein the mental powers among men are different to the extent of dividing mankind into those who are capable of participating in government and those, the natural slaves, whose lack of deliberative capacity condemns them to a servile, nondeliberative existence within the state
Epistemology · Government (linguistics · Law and economics · Natural (archaeology · Physics · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · State of nature · Swift · History · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.06 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2019 (26) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |