TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2024//
TI  - Prisoner, sailor, soldier, spy: Hobbes on coercion and consent
JO  - Journal of the history of ideas
A1  - Luban, Daniel
SP  - 185
EP  - 208
VL  - 85
IS  - 2
N2  - This article examines Thomas Hobbes's notorious claim that "fear and liberty are consistent" and therefore that agreements coerced by threat of violence are binding. This view is to a surprising extent inherited from Aristotle, but its political implications became especially striking in the wake of the English Civil War, and Hobbes recast his theory in far-reaching ways between his early works and Leviathan to accommodate it. I argue that Hobbes's account of coercion is both philosophically safe from the most common objections to it and politically superior to the seemingly commonsensical alternatives that we have inherited from Hobbes's critics.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-5037
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2024.a926146
ID  - ref1
ER  -