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Sorell, Tom (2021) Hobbes's peace dividend. History of Philosophy Quarterly, 38 (2). pp. 137-154. doi:10.5406/21521026.38.2.03 ISSN 0740-0675.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.5406/21521026.38.2.03
Abstract
Hobbes thinks that people who submit to government can not only hope for, but actually experience, something they recognize as a good life. The good life involves the exercise of harmless liberty—activity that the sovereign should not prohibit. The exchange of harmless liberty in the commonwealth for ruthless self-protection in the state of nature is what might be called Hobbes's peace dividend: the liberty of ordinary citizens to buy, sell, choose, and practice a trade as a source of income, and the liberty to keep some of the proceeds if the state does not need resources for public protection.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | History of Philosophy Quarterly | ||||||
Publisher: | University of Illinois Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 0740-0675 | ||||||
Official Date: | 1 April 2021 | ||||||
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Volume: | 38 | ||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 137-154 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.5406/21521026.38.2.03 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | copyright Illinois Press 2019. The article will not be photocopied, distributed, or used for purposes other than the terms agreed to by UIP | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Copyright Holders: | © 2021 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 December 2021 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 June 2022 | ||||||
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