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Reclaiming the Rights of the Hobbesian Subject

By:Eleanor Curran
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781349279890
eText ISBN:9780230592742
Edition:0
Copyright:2007
Format:Page Fidelity

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'There are no substantive rights for subjects in Hobbes's political theory, only bare freedoms without correlated duties to protect them'. Curran challenges this orthodoxy of Hobbes scholarship, and argues that Hobbes's theory is not a theory of natural rights but rather, a modern, secular theory of rights, with relevance to modern rights theory.