〈私人〉の発見 : 『リヴァイアサン』の新しい読み方

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  • ＜私人＞の発見 : 『リヴァイアサン』の新しい読み方
  • 〈 シジン 〉 ノ ハッケン : 『 リヴァイアサン 』 ノ アタラシイ ヨミカタ
  • The Discovery of <Private man> : A New Approach to Leviathan

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Thomas Hobbes（1588~1679）was a revolutional thinker who criticizedthe political philosophy of anciant time and middle age. According to Leviathan,liberty of <private man> lacked in concept of premodern society. Hediscovered <private man> as the key category of modern socety. At thisdiscovery he succeeded in breaking thorough old construction ofpremodern society by using the category of <private／public> replaced<whole／part>.Modern social contract theory was based on the concept of <privateman> who pursued reputation and interest in the market society.Accordingly contract, commodity, exchange, property, possesion were basiccategories of the theory.In my examination the social contract theory was based not onpreservation of life of human being, but on preservation of life of <privateman>.Hobbes thought that <private man> built the sovereign states. Now wecan see that his concept of sovereign states are the parts of modern worldsystem in Wallersteinʼs sense.But now we need the next world system in which the associatedindividuals in the place of <private man> transform the modern worldsystem.Leviathan showed the limit of modern world system by discovering thecategory of <Private man>.

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