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Hobbes is generally regarded as a political thinker, not as a philosopher of law. He himself invites this assessment when he claims that he is the father of political philosophy — which for him is the same as political science. Because his purpose is scientific, he undertakes an examination of the foundations of Res publica. This aspect of his thought has remained unnoticed, probably because his suggestions on this point are not precise enough. Nevertheless, they constitute a very new intuition concerning juridical notions.
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© 1987 Martinus Nijhoff Publishers (Kluwer Academic Publishers), Dordrecht
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Goyard-Fabre, S. (1987). Metamorphosis of the Idea of Right in Thomas Hobbes’s Philosophy. In: Walton, C., Johnson, P.J. (eds) Hobbes’s ‘Science of Natural Justice’. Archives Internationales D’histoire des Idées/International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 111. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3485-6_11
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