http://www.theoria.ca/theoria/archives/2006/11/arendt-on-hobbes.html animals : social theory : violence Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:09:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.theoria.ca/theoria/archives/2006/11/arendt-on-hobbes.html/comment-page-1#comment-42940 wayneandwax.com » links for 2008-09-21 Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:02:36 +0000 http://www.theoria.ca/theoria/archives/2006/11/arendt-on-hobbes.html#comment-42940 [...] Theoria › Arendt on Hobbes "The Commonwealth is based on the delegation of power, and not of rights. It acquires a monopoly on killing and provides in exchange a conditional guarantee against being killed. Security is provided by the law, which is a direct emanation from the power monopoly of the state (and is not established by man according to human standards of right and wrong). And as this law flows directly from absolute power, it represents absolute necessity in the eyes of the individual who lives under it. In regard to the law of the state - that is, the accumulated power of society as monopolized by the state - there is no question of right or wrong, but only absolute obedience, the blind conformism of bourgeois society." (tags: politics philosophy theory critique nation violence) [...] [...] Theoria › Arendt on Hobbes "The Commonwealth is based on the delegation of power, and not of rights. It acquires a monopoly on killing and provides in exchange a conditional guarantee against being killed. Security is provided by the law, which is a direct emanation from the power monopoly of the state (and is not established by man according to human standards of right and wrong). And as this law flows directly from absolute power, it represents absolute necessity in the eyes of the individual who lives under it. In regard to the law of the state – that is, the accumulated power of society as monopolized by the state – there is no question of right or wrong, but only absolute obedience, the blind conformism of bourgeois society." (tags: politics philosophy theory critique nation violence) [...]

]]> http://www.theoria.ca/theoria/archives/2006/11/arendt-on-hobbes.html/comment-page-1#comment-42938 I am a Flypaper Vegetarian « zunguzungu Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:28:31 +0000 http://www.theoria.ca/theoria/archives/2006/11/arendt-on-hobbes.html#comment-42938 [...] of modern political society is a surprisingly Hobbesian way to go about it, though Hannah Arendt warned us that it was so) and Salisbury is doing exactly the same thing, defining the success of a [...] [...] of modern political society is a surprisingly Hobbesian way to go about it, though Hannah Arendt warned us that it was so) and Salisbury is doing exactly the same thing, defining the success of a [...]

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