Hobbes and political realism

Douglass, Robin

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“…The ideas of human existence being evil or 'men are evil' emerge from this. Not all omnium contra omens or war of all against all becomes something that cannot be avoided (Douglass, 2020;Fischer, 2012). However, Hobbes still views that humans will always try to want peace by forming a commonwealth (Cozzaglio & Greene, 2019;Douglass, 2020;Fischer, 2012;Malcolm, 2005;Moloney, 2011;Murphy, 2013;Polansky, 2016;Thivet, 2008;Yurdusev, 2006).…”

Section: Hobbes's Realismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Political Realism

Wicaksono

Suyastri

Sundari

2022

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This article discusses one of the basic concepts in political science and international relations, namely realism. As a perspective often used to analyze various political phenomena, it is essential to re-understand the concept of realism itself as a whole. This article attempts to provide a clear picture of what realism is meant and explain the history of realism from various realism thinkers. This article reviews the realism concept of 4 characters, namely Thucydides, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Morgenthau. This article explains that each thinker has their arguments for explaining realism. Hopefully, this article can provide readers with a complete understanding of realism as a concept or perspective often used in political science.

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Section: Hobbes's Realismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Political Realism

Wicaksono

Suyastri

Sundari

2022

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“…‘Governance’ implies an unauthorizable hierarchy, which however cannot be unconditional; ‘power’ takes absolutely equal and free subjects as a premise and draws absolute authority as a conclusion. Finally, unjust ‘governance’ can be judged and resisted, while ‘power’ is formally irresistible and irrevocable (see Douglass 2016). Hobbes’s sovereign person is just by definition, no matter what it does, because it formally expresses the citizens’ command as the bedrock of politics.…”

Section: The Principle Of ‘Governance’ Versus the Concept Of Powermentioning

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Rethinking the sexual contract: The case of Thomas Hobbes

Rustighi

2018

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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Feminist scholars have long debated on a key contradiction in the political theory of Thomas Hobbes: While he sees women as free and equal to men in the state of nature, he postulates their subjection to male rule in the civil state without any apparent explanation. Focusing on Hobbes’s construction of the mother–child relationship, this article suggests that the subjugation of the mother to the father epitomizes the neutralization of the ancient principle of ‘governance’, which he replaces with a novel concept of ‘power’ as formally authorized command. This scrutiny leads to three main conclusions: (1) a radicalization of Pateman’s concept of ‘sexual contract'; (2) the acknowledgement that patriarchy is inseparable from the logic of political authority constructed by Hobbes; and (3) the claim that criticism of patriarchal rule requires an overall problematization of the mainstream conception of political participation we have inherited from modern political science.

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“…The various meanings are not entirely unconnected, but their relationship is complicated. While it is common to cite realist classics in contemporary realist theory and there are some articles arguing that other classical authors should be added to the realist canon (e. g. Schlosser, 2014), this practice is not without difficulties (Douglass, 2020;McQueen, 2017). There are also arguments put forward for involving realist international political theory in contemporary realist theory (Sleat, 2013: 12-14).…”

Section: The Variety Of Political Realismmentioning

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Aristotle’s realist regime theory

Szűcs

2018

European Journal of Political Theory

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The ambition of this article is threefold. First, it is to offer a realist reading of Aristotle’s regime theory as it is laid out mostly in Books IV–VI of his Politics. The author argues that Aristotle’s regime theory has three fundamentally realist claims about the workings of politics: first, the search for a perfect regime is not the only legitimate subject of political theory; second, every regime is built on a delicate balance of a particular understanding of political justice, a variety of sociological factors and the institutional design and political virtues of its politicians; third, there are almost as many different regimes as polities, and although they can be grouped into major regime types, there are many sub-types and mixed and transitory regimes. Second, the article argues that modern democratic theories have an unacceptable ‘moralistic bias’ from a realist point of view. Third, that a neo-Aristotelian regime theory can offer an attractive realist alternative to the predominant contemporary understandings of political regimes.

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Hobbes and political realism

Cited by 13 publications

References 45 publications

Understanding Political Realism

Understanding Political Realism

Rethinking the sexual contract: The case of Thomas Hobbes

Aristotle’s realist regime theory

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