Misgivings About Absolute Power: Hobbes and the Concept of Honor
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | Misgivings About Absolute Power: Hobbes and the Concept of Honor |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Jerónimo Rilla; University of Buenos Aires; Argentina |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | political philosophy |
| 3. | Subject | Keyword(s) | Hobbes, honor, authority, absolutism, limitation |
| 3. | Subject | Subject classification | 7207.04 |
| 4. | Description | Abstract | This work intends to demonstrate the existence of limits that hinder the absolute authority of the sovereign in Hobbes’s political theory. Particularly, I will try to identify the concept of honor as the paradigm of this limitation. The field of the manifestations of worth —it will be argued— operates within a logic that runs parallel (sometimes convergently, others divergently) to that of the State. Moreover, it engenders authorities with high degree of autonomy. To be sure, the sovereign power can intervene in this field by means of persuasion and coercion, but it will never be able to erase the resistances and limitations imposed by signs of honor. |
| 5. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| 6. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | Durante el período de redacción del artículo, el autor fue beneficiario de una Beca Interna Doctoral de CONICET, Argentina. |
| 7. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 2016-12-20 |
| 8. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
| 8. | Type | Type | |
| 9. | Format | File format | PDF (Español), HTML (Español) |
| 10. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://lastorresdelucca.org/index.php/ojs/article/view/55 |
| 11. | Source | Title; vol., no. (year) | Las Torres de Lucca. International Journal of Political Philosophy; Vol 5, No 9 (2016): July-December |
| 12. | Language | English=en | es |
| 13. | Relation | Supp. Files | |
| 14. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) | |
| 15. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright (c) 2016 Jerónimo Rilla This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. |