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单词 Hobbesian
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Definition of Hobbesian in English:

Hobbesian

adjective ˈhɒbzɪənˈhɑbziən
  • Relating to or characteristic of the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes or his ideas.

    a Hobbesian state of nature
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We may model this in the following way by formulating some simple games that utilize the same framework used for the Hobbesian analysis.
    • Remove the elementary staples of organized, civilized life—food, shelter, drinkable water, minimal personal security—and we go back within hours to a Hobbesian state of nature, a war of all against all.
    • He can only rule out this possibility by appeal to a Hobbesian Fear.
    • He argues that international relations resemble a society at least as much as it resembles Hobbesian anarchy.
    • This may make it seem that Descartes rejects a substantial role for philosophy in ethics, offering in its place a Hobbesian account of the authority of moral dictates grounded in a sovereign will.
    • He addressed the Hobbesian argument that, since thought is a mode of matter and matter has no self-moving power, there cannot be any freedom of the will.
    • The parents largely ignore all sorts of kid-on-kid abuse, leaving their older sons in a brutal Hobbesian jungle.
    • A rival philosophical tradition emphasised severe law and harsh punishments, on the basis of what, in the West, would be regarded as a Hobbesian view of the world.
    • They would have been truer to their Hobbesian conception of international law if they had refused to sign the resolution.
    • The Hobbesian nightmare she depicts does not represent the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism but, on the contrary, the consequences of the capitalist system's most basic tendencies.
nounˈhɒbzɪənˈhɑbziən
  • A person who supports the theories of the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes.

    if he was a Hobbesian, he certainly kept quiet about it
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I'm a Hobbesian: life is nasty, brutish, and short.
    • We each became ad hoc Hobbesians, accepting (at least provisionally) that force and fear adequately established the other power's right to rule.
    • Lockeans base the state on protection of antecedent natural rights to property, which includes one's person; Hobbesians base the state on amoral interest in avoiding general war.
    • It doesn't follow from this, of course, that if the Europeans are Hobbesians, the Americans must be Kantians.
    • I think it's much more useful to start talking about libertarians as basically Hobbesians.
 
 

Definition of Hobbesian in US English:

Hobbesian

adjectiveˈhɑbziənˈhäbzēən
  • Relating to or characteristic of the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes or his ideas.

    a Hobbesian state of nature
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This may make it seem that Descartes rejects a substantial role for philosophy in ethics, offering in its place a Hobbesian account of the authority of moral dictates grounded in a sovereign will.
    • They would have been truer to their Hobbesian conception of international law if they had refused to sign the resolution.
    • Remove the elementary staples of organized, civilized life—food, shelter, drinkable water, minimal personal security—and we go back within hours to a Hobbesian state of nature, a war of all against all.
    • He argues that international relations resemble a society at least as much as it resembles Hobbesian anarchy.
    • We may model this in the following way by formulating some simple games that utilize the same framework used for the Hobbesian analysis.
    • He can only rule out this possibility by appeal to a Hobbesian Fear.
    • He addressed the Hobbesian argument that, since thought is a mode of matter and matter has no self-moving power, there cannot be any freedom of the will.
    • The parents largely ignore all sorts of kid-on-kid abuse, leaving their older sons in a brutal Hobbesian jungle.
    • The Hobbesian nightmare she depicts does not represent the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism but, on the contrary, the consequences of the capitalist system's most basic tendencies.
    • A rival philosophical tradition emphasised severe law and harsh punishments, on the basis of what, in the West, would be regarded as a Hobbesian view of the world.
nounˈhɑbziənˈhäbzēən
  • A person who supports the theories of the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes.

    if he was a Hobbesian, he certainly kept quiet about it
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Lockeans base the state on protection of antecedent natural rights to property, which includes one's person; Hobbesians base the state on amoral interest in avoiding general war.
    • I'm a Hobbesian: life is nasty, brutish, and short.
    • I think it's much more useful to start talking about libertarians as basically Hobbesians.
    • We each became ad hoc Hobbesians, accepting (at least provisionally) that force and fear adequately established the other power's right to rule.
    • It doesn't follow from this, of course, that if the Europeans are Hobbesians, the Americans must be Kantians.
 
 
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