Hobbes's Behemoth on Ambition, Greed, mid Fear
The aim of this paper is to make a contribution to the debate on whether and to what extent the account of human motivation offered by Hobbes in Leviathan provides an insight into the narrative of Behemoth. Specifically, the paper examines the role that the three passions singled out by Hobbes in Ch...
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ftslacadscienart:oai:ojs.zrc-sazu.si:article/3392 2023-05-15T18:13:43+02:00 Hobbes's Behemoth on Ambition, Greed, mid Fear Hobbesov Behemoth o stremuštvu, pohlepu in strahu Slomp, Gabriella 2016-01-03 application/pdf https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/filozofski-vestnik/article/view/3392/3089 https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/filozofski-vestnik/article/view/3392 eng eng ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/filozofski-vestnik/article/view/3392 Filozofski vestnik; Vol. 24 No. 2 (2003): Behemoth Filozofski vestnik; Letn. 24 Št. 2 (2003): Behemoth 1581-1239 0353-4510 Thomas Hobbes Behemoth Ambition Fear Desire of Gain Money Ignorance stremuštvo strah dobičkažetjnost denar nevednost info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article 2016 ftslacadscienart 2022-08-11T20:09:16Z The aim of this paper is to make a contribution to the debate on whether and to what extent the account of human motivation offered by Hobbes in Leviathan provides an insight into the narrative of Behemoth. Specifically, the paper examines the role that the three passions singled out by Hobbes in Chapter 13 of Leviathan as leading to conflict -namely desire of gain, fear for safety, and ambition- play in his own account of the Civil War. The paper makes the following two claims: (i) although Hobbes resorts to two of the greatest motivational forces described in Leviathan, namely, "ambition" and "greed", to explain the sources and dynamics of the English Civil War, in Behemoth he adds the crucial proviso that these passions alone, without widespread ignorance about the meaning and value of civil obedience, would have found "no hands"; (ii) regarding the third greatest human motivation, namely fear, we witness a major change in the transition from Leviathan to Behemoth in so far as Hobbes renounces the idea that fear is the passion to be "reckoned upon". Članek je prispevek k razpravi o vprašanju, ali in do kakšne mere nam Hobbesova obravnava človeške motivacije v Leviathanu ponuja uvid v pripoved v Behemothu. Bolj specifično, članek preučuje vlogo, ki sojo tri strasti — želja po dobičku, strah za varnost in častihlepje -, kijih Hobbes v 13. poglavju Leviathana izpostavi kot strasti, ki vodijo v konflikt, igrale v njegovem razumevanju državljanske vojne. Članek ponuja naslednja argumenta: (1) Hobbes v Behemothu, ko želi razložiti vire in dinamiko angleške državljanske vojne, sicer poseže po dveh poglavitnih motivacijskih silah, opisanih v Leviathanu, namreč po "stremuštvu" in "pohlepu", vendar doda pojasnilo ključnega pomena, da ti strasti sami, če ne bi bilo tudi široko razpasene nevednosti o pomenu in vrednoti civilne poslušnosti, ne bi našli "rok", potrebnih za akcijo; (2) glede tretje poglavitne človeške motivacije, namreč strahu, vidimo, daje med Leviatha-nom in Behemothom pomemben premik, saj Hobbes zavrže ... Article in Journal/Newspaper sami ZRC SAZU Publishing (Znanstvenoraziskovalni center - Slovenske akademije znanosti in umetnosti) |
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The aim of this paper is to make a contribution to the debate on whether and to what extent the account of human motivation offered by Hobbes in Leviathan provides an insight into the narrative of Behemoth. Specifically, the paper examines the role that the three passions singled out by Hobbes in Chapter 13 of Leviathan as leading to conflict -namely desire of gain, fear for safety, and ambition- play in his own account of the Civil War. The paper makes the following two claims: (i) although Hobbes resorts to two of the greatest motivational forces described in Leviathan, namely, "ambition" and "greed", to explain the sources and dynamics of the English Civil War, in Behemoth he adds the crucial proviso that these passions alone, without widespread ignorance about the meaning and value of civil obedience, would have found "no hands"; (ii) regarding the third greatest human motivation, namely fear, we witness a major change in the transition from Leviathan to Behemoth in so far as Hobbes renounces the idea that fear is the passion to be "reckoned upon". Članek je prispevek k razpravi o vprašanju, ali in do kakšne mere nam Hobbesova obravnava človeške motivacije v Leviathanu ponuja uvid v pripoved v Behemothu. Bolj specifično, članek preučuje vlogo, ki sojo tri strasti — želja po dobičku, strah za varnost in častihlepje -, kijih Hobbes v 13. poglavju Leviathana izpostavi kot strasti, ki vodijo v konflikt, igrale v njegovem razumevanju državljanske vojne. Članek ponuja naslednja argumenta: (1) Hobbes v Behemothu, ko želi razložiti vire in dinamiko angleške državljanske vojne, sicer poseže po dveh poglavitnih motivacijskih silah, opisanih v Leviathanu, namreč po "stremuštvu" in "pohlepu", vendar doda pojasnilo ključnega pomena, da ti strasti sami, če ne bi bilo tudi široko razpasene nevednosti o pomenu in vrednoti civilne poslušnosti, ne bi našli "rok", potrebnih za akcijo; (2) glede tretje poglavitne človeške motivacije, namreč strahu, vidimo, daje med Leviatha-nom in Behemothom pomemben premik, saj Hobbes zavrže ... |
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Hobbes's Behemoth on Ambition, Greed, mid Fear |
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Filozofski vestnik; Vol. 24 No. 2 (2003): Behemoth Filozofski vestnik; Letn. 24 Št. 2 (2003): Behemoth 1581-1239 0353-4510 |
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