INVESTIGADORES
VENEZIA Luciano Javier
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Crucial Evidence: Hobbes on Contractual Obligation
Autor/es:
VENEZIA, LUCIANO
Lugar:
Buenos Aires
Reunión:
Seminario; Seminario de la Asociación de Estudios Hobbesianos; 2012
Institución organizadora:
Asociación de estudios hobbesianos
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.
