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Hobbesian /ˈhɒbzɪən /adjectiveRelating to or characteristic of the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes or his ideas: a Hobbesian state of nature...- This may make it seem that Descartes rejects a substantial role for philosophy in ethics, offering in its place a Hobbesian account of the authority of moral dictates grounded in a sovereign will.
- We may model this in the following way by formulating some simple games that utilize the same framework used for the Hobbesian analysis.
- He argues that international relations resemble a society at least as much as it resembles Hobbesian anarchy.
nounA person who supports the theories of the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes: if he was a Hobbesian, he certainly kept quiet about it...- I'm a Hobbesian: life is nasty, brutish, and short.
- It doesn't follow from this, of course, that if the Europeans are Hobbesians, the Americans must be Kantians.
- We each became ad hoc Hobbesians, accepting (at least provisionally) that force and fear adequately established the other power's right to rule.
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