Political Representation in Thomas Hobbes
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Hobbes. Modernity. Representation.Abstract
The article examines the theory of representation through which the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes constructs the most mature and elaborate version of his political doctrine. The Leviathan demonstration innovates and resolves certain ambiguities of previous works by using the theory of representation, support of the sovereign’s supreme power; opens political science to modernity. With this fiction, the reasoning acquires a coherence that it had not yet attained in either Elements of Law or De Cive. For Hobbes, representation plays a decisive role in structuring the legal world in which the State consists. From the thought of the English philosopher, the notion of representation reaches for the first time a political meaning, inaugurating a new way of understanding the social and political bond, as well as the institution and perpetuation of the political community with its conceptualization as a principle of community existence.
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