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Hobbesianism
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English
Etymology
From en Hobbesian ism.
Noun
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The philosophical system of Thomas Hobbes; support for this system.
en Hobbism Hobbesism
en V. de S. 26 August 1852 The Economist The Economist 10 480 955 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3ElUAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA955 Scepticism or Hobbesianism, that is the meaning of your article of Aug. 21, which I regret to have read in the Economist. Nowhere conscience is apparent.
en 2013 Reidar Maliks The state of freedom: Kant and his conservative critics w:Quentin Skinner; Martin van Gelderen Freedom and the Construction of Europe 2, Free Persons and Free States 9781107033078 205 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=oTTzUJZeUsIC&pg=PA205 Kant’s defence of state authority was indeed vigorous, but the ‘Hobbesianism’ identified by Richard Tuck and others should not be taken too far.
en 2015 Paul Downes Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature 9781107085299 49 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VTIZCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA49 Aravamudan’s work unintentionally participates in the liberal project of burying a Hobbesianism that has consistently been recognized as a threat to the very Protestant capitalist revolution Aravamudan would want to indict.
Translations
philosophy of Hobbes
French: fr hobbisme m, fr hobbesianisme m
German: de Hobbesianismus m
Latin: la Hobbesiānismus m
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