2024
DOI: 10.15388/problemos.2024.106.4
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Hobbes and Kant: Materialism and Rhetoric

Gonzalo Bustamante Kuschel

Abstract: This article examines the subtle nuances of Hobbes’s and Kant’s perspectives on rhetoric and materialism, contextualising them within the broader framework of political philosophy. Despite both philosophers being critics of rhetoric, their approaches exhibit notable divergences. Hobbes, who advocated for monarchy, criticized rhetoric from the perspective of a materialist anthropology influenced by Lucretius. However, he paradoxically employed rhetorical strategies in his new scientia civilis. Despite critiquin… Show more

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