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Preliminary Inquiry On Hobbes' Political Ethics Thought

Posted on:2006-10-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:G Q ZouFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166360155956388Subject:Ethics
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Political ethics is a discipline that carning on morals judging and Value guiding, by the way of showing the value of political science with the ethics visual angle, proving that what it is good, virtural or justice on politics (state system, government form, international relations and behavior, etc. ), explaining promptly that the proper and legitimacy question of the politics (state system , government form , international relations and behaviors ,etc. ) too ,Its content can roughly be divided into three sections: state policy ethics, administrative ethics and international political ethics.Hobbes put individual above country for the first time, Having broken tlirough classical political ethics and political ethics of theology that they always take country as standard, establishing individual political ethics. Having written "modern edition" of the western political ethics thought. Because of following reasons: being inspirated by the historical works of Thucydides, Contrasting by Socrates and his successors' classical political ethics, originating from the happy doctrine of Epicurean, discontenting with the political ethics of Christianity's theology, Benefiting from the" individual liberates "of setting by Renaissance , Martin ? Luther and Machiavelli , Therefore there are deep theory backgrounds of the political ethics. At the same time , it is capitalist economy' rising that made the individual rights question conspicuous. The European turmoil and war made the guarantee of the peace and security become badly need. Hobbes1 frightened experience promoted him to eagerly seek safe protection, Therefore there are wide social backgrounds of political ethics.The starting point of Hobbes' political ethics thought is how to step out of the natural state of everybody's fighting each other. He expounded the production of the country with the social agreement theory and the purpose of the country produced is for the peace and security. Its key part is to expound how to ensure the individual rights, namely protect and keep...
Keywords/Search Tags:National standard, Personal standard, Individual rights, Peace and security, International "Leviathan", Liberalism
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