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War: War is an armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. See also Conflicts, Peace, Violence, Coercion, State, Politics._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Thomas Hobbes on War - Dictionary of Arguments
Höffe I 218 War/Civil War/Hobbes/Höffe: (...) the human’s natural desire for happiness runs the risk of people throwing each other into misery. War of all against all/Hobbes: Misery is rather the result of living together without a community: without statehood, people live in a state of war of all against all. By this state of affairs, Hobbes expressly does not understand a civil war perpetuated in eternity. Rather, he assumes a state in which, due to the equality of weakness and the lack of state power, one cannot be sure of one's own body and life in principle. In this way, he gives his historical situation, the English Civil War, a more fundamental description and explanation that is valid both beyond the economic circumstances, pre- and early capitalism, and beyond the period of the European Wars of Confession. Religion: Although religious issues still play an important role, the state sovereign is only responsible for the public side of religion, while personal faith, an internal phenomenon anyway, is left to the citizens. >Natural state, >Civil war, >Religion._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Hobbes I Thomas Hobbes Leviathan: With selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668 Cambridge 1994 Höffe I Otfried Höffe Geschichte des politischen Denkens München 2016 |