Filozofija i drustvo 2011 Volume 22, Issue 3, Pages: 11-25
https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1103011S
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Republicanism, apsolutism, and liberalism: Hobbes and Kant on state of war and peace
Sládeček Michal (Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, Beograd)
This text reflects on the book written by Milorad Stupar, Political
Philosophy. Based on the perspectives given in Stupar’s book, the author’s
intention is to illustrate the problems regarding certain topics such as:
citizenship, the dispute about the nature of Hobbes’s philosophy, as well as
social, political and historical background of Kant’s political philosophy.
The article points at dilemmas related to the meaning of citizenship in
modern states, to the compatibility between absolutism and certain elements
of liberalism in Hobbes’s work, and to the possible reconstruction of the
context within which Kant produced his last works.
Keywords: Kant, Hobbes, citizenship, republicanism, sovereignity, apsolutism, liberalism, state of war