@article{ART001235705},
author={Jong Eun Lee},
title={Hobbes's View on the Role of Language on Politics and the State by Reason},
journal={Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences},
issn={1598-4230},
year={2008},
volume={1},
number={19},
pages={327-368},
doi={10.17939/hushss.2008.1.19.010}
TY - JOUR
AU - Jong Eun Lee
TI - Hobbes's View on the Role of Language on Politics and the State by Reason
JO - Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences
PY - 2008
VL - 1
IS - 19
PB - Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences
SP - 327
EP - 368
SN - 1598-4230
AB - No other political philosophers other than Thomas Hobbes have fully appreciated the extent to which that language plays many a lot of roles in politics. According to Hobbes, what makes human beings different from other animals is their use of the fact that man uses language with the help of reason. Civil philosophy is nothing but the reasoning on the speeches that have resulted from the trains of words.
There prevail not only the violences but also the frauds due to abuse and misuse of language in society. This reflects exactly what Hobbes termed calls the state of nature. It is nothing but , I.e., the situation caused by the anarchy of meanings. Men make the social contract to avoid the fear caused by the anarchical state. The sovereign of the Commonwealth, as public reason, becomes a great definer of words, exercises the absolute epistemic power and controls the moral and political language. It is the epistemic power which makes the sovereignty absolute.
The Commonwealth becomes artificial because it is established by reasoning through language, and so is language. Therefore, it is an urgent task for the sovereign to define what the political and moral discourses are possible and reasonable. Thus so that men can observe the moral commands by following the commands of the sovereign
KW - Hobbes;language;definer;the state by
reason;espistemic power;moral command
DO - 10.17939/hushss.2008.1.19.010
ER -
Jong Eun Lee. (2008). Hobbes's View on the Role of Language on Politics and the State by Reason. Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, 1(19), 327-368.
Jong Eun Lee. 2008, "Hobbes's View on the Role of Language on Politics and the State by Reason", Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, vol.1, no.19 pp.327-368. Available from: doi:10.17939/hushss.2008.1.19.010
Jong Eun Lee "Hobbes's View on the Role of Language on Politics and the State by Reason" Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences 1.19 pp.327-368 (2008) : 327.
Jong Eun Lee. Hobbes's View on the Role of Language on Politics and the State by Reason. 2008; 1(19), 327-368. Available from: doi:10.17939/hushss.2008.1.19.010
Jong Eun Lee. "Hobbes's View on the Role of Language on Politics and the State by Reason" Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences 1, no.19 (2008) : 327-368.doi: 10.17939/hushss.2008.1.19.010
Jong Eun Lee. Hobbes's View on the Role of Language on Politics and the State by Reason. Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, 1(19), 327-368. doi: 10.17939/hushss.2008.1.19.010
Jong Eun Lee. Hobbes's View on the Role of Language on Politics and the State by Reason. Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences. 2008; 1(19) 327-368. doi: 10.17939/hushss.2008.1.19.010
Jong Eun Lee. Hobbes's View on the Role of Language on Politics and the State by Reason. 2008; 1(19), 327-368. Available from: doi:10.17939/hushss.2008.1.19.010
Jong Eun Lee. "Hobbes's View on the Role of Language on Politics and the State by Reason" Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences 1, no.19 (2008) : 327-368.doi: 10.17939/hushss.2008.1.19.010