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Sorell, Tom (2019) Appeals to experience in Hobbes' science of politics. In: Anstey, P. and Vanzo, A., (eds.) Experiment, Speculation and Religion in Early Modern Philosophy. Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy . New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780367077396 (In Press)
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This paper considers an unusual break from that condescension – in Hobbes’s civil philosophy. Although he claims for his own formulation of civil philosophy a kind of definitiveness and certainty that only geometry has among the sciences, and although both geometry and civil philosophy are supposed to be the products of reason, the necessity of establishing and submitting to the commonwealth is open to a certain sort of confirmation from experience. This is not because Hobbes concedes cognitive authority to sense and memory after all, but because civil philosophy has a rhetorical purpose that a certain kind of appeal to experience helps to achieve.
| Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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| Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 -- Leviathan -- Criticism and interpretation | ||||
| Series Name: | Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy | ||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
| Place of Publication: | New York | ||||
| ISBN: | 9780367077396 | ||||
| Book Title: | Experiment, Speculation and Religion in Early Modern Philosophy | ||||
| Editor: | Anstey, P. and Vanzo, A. | ||||
| Official Date: | 7 March 2019 | ||||
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| Number of Pages: | 296 | ||||
| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | In Press | ||||
| Publisher Statement: | "This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Experiment, Speculation and Religion in Early Modern Philosophy on 7/03/2019, available online: http://www.routledge.com/Experiment-Speculation-and-Religion-in-Early-Modern-Philosophy/Vanzo-Anstey/p/book/9780367077396 | ||||
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