Open AccessRepublicanism, apsolutism, and liberalism: Hobbes and Kant on state of war and peace
Author(s) -
Michal Sládeček
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
filozofija i društvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2334-8577
pISSN - 0353-5738
DOI - 10.2298/fid1103011s
Subject(s) - political philosophy , liberalism , epistemology , citizenship , philosophy , politics , state of nature , absolute monarchy , hegelianism , social contract , state (computer science) , meaning (existential) , sociology , political science , law , algorithm , computer science
This text reflects on the book written by Milorad Stupar, Political Philosophy. Based on the perspectives given in Stupar’s book, the author’s intention is to illustrate the problems regarding certain topics such as: citizenship, the dispute about the nature of Hobbes’s philosophy, as well as social, political and historical background of Kant’s political philosophy. The article points at dilemmas related to the meaning of citizenship in modern states, to the compatibility between absolutism and certain elements of liberalism in Hobbes’s work, and to the possible reconstruction of the context within which Kant produced his last works