Discourse on Law에 나타난 홉스의 법의 관념

Abstract

Although Thomas Hobbes is a great scholar and there has been enormous amount of research on his philosophy throughout various countries, we do not have much knowledge about Hobbes’s early days. The main purpose of this paper is twofold. First, the political and legal philosophy of Thomas Hobbes in his early days was examined. Through this examination I try to clarify if there was any ‘epistemological break’ between the young Hobbes and the mature Hobbes. Secondly, this paper attempted to shed a light on the debate developed by many Hobbes scholars such as Leo Strauss and Howard Warrender. The debate was mainly the relationship between Hobbes’s legal and political philosophy and his idea of ‘new science’.