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5Hobbes and Hume on Human Nature: “Much of a Dispute of Words?”In Marcus P. Adams (ed.), A Companion to Hobbes, Wiley. pp. 463-477. 2021.According to Hume, the question of the “dignity” or “meanness” of human nature comes down to a comparison of its “different motives or actuating principles”: that is, whether “our selfish and vicious principles” are “predominant above our social and virtuous” (Hume 1987, 84). Hume was responding in part to Hobbes, and comparison between the two philosophers on this question is common, with Hobbes placed on the “selfish” side, and Hume on the other. But, as Hume immediately goes on to say, “There…Read more
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Hobbes on the Motives of MartyrsIn Laurens van Apeldoorn & Robin Douglass (eds.), Hobbes on Politics and Religion, Oxford University Press. pp. 79-94. 2018.
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16From soul to mind in Hobbes’s The Elements of LawHistory of European Ideas 46 (3): 257-275. 2020.This paper examines the significance and originality of Hobbes’s use of ‘mind’, rather than ‘soul’, in his writings on human nature. To this end, his terminology in the discussion of the ‘faculties of the mind’ in The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic (1640) is considered in the context of English-language accounts of the ‘faculties of the soul’ in three widely-read works from the first half of the seventeenth century: Thomas Wright’s The Passions of the Minde in Generall (1604), Robert Burto…Read more
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University of JyväskyläPost-doctoral Fellow
Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
Areas of Specialization
History of Political Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Political Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Ethics |
Thomas Hobbes |