Reclaiming the Rights of the Hobbesian Subject
'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.
1st ed. 2007
Hardcover
Erscheinungsdatum 01.01.2007
ISBN 9781349279890
ELEANOR CURRAN is a Lecturer at Kent Law School, The University of Kent, UK.
'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.