Evidencia crucial. Hobbes sobre las obligaciones contractuales

VENEZIA, LUCIANO

Granada

Seminario; Normatividad y justificación en la historia de la filosofía; 2012

Departamento de Filosofía I, Universidad de Granada

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 evidence—crucial evidence—for interpreting Hobbes’s account in a deontological fashion.