Hobbes and Harrington are known today as spokesmen of opposite positions. Yet, behind their disagreements, argues Fukuda, there lay a common perspective. For both writers, the primary aim was the restoration of peace and order to a divided land.
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Hobbes and Harrington are known today as spokesmen of opposite positions. Yet, behind their disagreements, argues Fukuda, there lay a common perspective. For both writers, the primary aim was the restoration of peace and order to a divided land.
The English civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century produced two political thinkers of genius: Thomas Hobbes and James Harrington. They are known today as spokesmen of opposite positions, Hobbes of absolutism, Harrington of republicanism. Yet behind their disagreements, argues…