INVESTIGADORES
VENEZIA Luciano Javier
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Crucial Evidence
Autor/es:
VENEZIA, LUCIANO
Lugar:
Buenos Aires
Reunión:
Seminario; Seminario GAF; 2012
Resumen:
In
this paper, I will introduce the notions of crucial argument and crucial
evidence in the philosophy of intellectual history (broadly construed,
including the history of political thought). In turn, I will use these concepts
and take sides in an important controversy in Hobbes studies, namely whether
Hobbes holds a prudential or a deontological theory of contractual obligation.
Though there is textual evidence for both readings, I will argue that there is especially
relevant evidencecrucial evidencefor interpreting Hobbess account in a
deontological fashion.