Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hamilton, James J.

Titel

Pyrrhonism in the Political Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes

Ist Teil von

• British journal for the history of philosophy, 2012-03, Vol.20 (2), p.217-247

Ort / Verlag

Abingdon: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The importance of Pyrrhonism to Hobbes's political philosophy is much greater than has been recognized. He seems to have used Pyrrhonist arguments to support a doctrine of moral relativity, but he was not a sceptic in the Pyrrhonist sense. These arguments helped him to develop his teaching that there is no absolute good or evil; to minimise the purchase of natural law in the state of nature and its restrictions on the right of nature; virtually to collapse natural law into civil law; and to make the sovereign the political, moral and theological epicenter of his political system.