Reclaiming the Rights of the Hobbesian Subject
Description
'There are no substantive rights for subjects in Hobbes's political theory, only bare freedoms without correlated duties to protect them'. Curran challenges this orthodoxy of Hobbes scholarship, and argues that Hobbes's theory is not a theory of natural rights but rather, a modern, secular theory of rights, with relevance to modern rights theory.
Keywords
PhilosophyPoliticalSocialHistory & SurveysMedieval
2007Book
Author(s)Eleanor Curran
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780230001497
LanguageEnglish
