Hobbesianism

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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.

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