Crucial Evidence: Hobbes on Contractual Obligation

Las Torres de Lucca

Luciano Venezia¹ 

[1] Universidad Nacional de Quilmes y Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET);

关键词: Subdeterminación de la interpretación;    Evidencia crucial;    Hobbes;    Obligación contractual;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In this article I introduce the notion of crucial evidence and I use it to shed light on an ongoing scholarly controversy in Hobbes studies, namely whether Hobbes holds a prudential or a deontological theory of contractual obligation. Even though there is important evidence for both readings, I argue that there is crucial evidence for interpreting Hobbes’s account in a deontological fashion.

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