群众
民主
社会契约
主权
政府(语言学)
政治
人民主权
功率(物理)
政治学
法律与经济学
政治哲学
将军的意志
要素(刑法)
直接民主
社会学
代议制民主
法学
政治经济学
哲学
语言学
物理
量子力学
出处
期刊:Las Torres de Lucca. International Journal of Political Philosophy
日期:2016-12-20
卷期号:5 (9): 89-118
被引量:1
摘要
The purpose of this article is to analyse Hobbes’s understanding of democracy. The first part of the article analyses the role of democracy in the social contract. It aims to show how there exists a democratic element at the beginning of the process of social contract, in which the multitude is transformed into a people. However, after the first social contract is made, Hobbes aims to reduce the power of the people by leading the process of social contract on to another level, on which the power of the people is assigned to a representative of the sovereign power, for example a monarch. The second part of the article aims to explain the practical reasons, provided by Hobbes in different parts of his political theory, for his aversion to a democratic form of government. Main reason for this, it is argued, is that democratic government is closest to the unwanted multitude. Thus, in his political theory Hobbes uses democracy to build sovereign power, but does not trust it as a form of government.
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