Hobbesianism

English

Etymology

From Hobbesian +‎ -ism.

Noun

Hobbesianism (uncountable)

1. The philosophical system of Thomas Hobbes; support for this system.

   Synonyms: Hobbism, Hobbesism

   • 1852 August 26, V. de S., The Economist […] , volume 10, number 480, page 955:

     Scepticism or Hobbesianism, that is the meaning of your article of Aug. 21, which I regret to have read in the Economist. Nowhere conscience is apparent.

   • 2013, Reidar Maliks, “The state of freedom: Kant and his conservative critics”, in Quentin Skinner, Martin van Gelderen, editors, Freedom and the Construction of Europe, volumes 2, Free Persons and Free States, →ISBN, page 205:

     Kant’s defence of state authority was indeed vigorous, but the ‘Hobbesianism’ identified by Richard Tuck and others should not be taken too far.

   • 2015, Paul Downes, Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature, →ISBN, page 49:

     […] Aravamudan’s work unintentionally participates in the liberal project of burying a Hobbesianism that has consistently been recognized as a threat to the very Protestant capitalist revolution Aravamudan would want to indict.

Translations

philosophy of Hobbes

• French: hobbisme (fr) m, hobbesianisme m
• German: Hobbesianismus m
• Latin: Hobbesiānismus m