Concept of the common good in Kant and Hobbes

Focusing on the ethical and political philosophies of Immanuel Kant and Thomas Hobbes, our study aims to critically and comparatively examine the political systems of these two thinkers with a special focus on the concept of the common good, thereby investigating the question of whether there is a possibility of the common good in the political sense. In the first part of our study, Hobbes' philosophical anthropology will be discussed in relation to his epistemology, which constitutes the foundations of his thought, and how the modern sovereignty system is constructed in relation to the common good will be investigated within the framework of the concepts of human nature, property, social contract and sovereignty. In the second part, Kant's ethical and political attitude will be analyzed, starting from the epistemological foundations that establish his philosophical system, in the light of the concepts of freedom, morality, history and man, social contract, property and law, and the possibility of the common good will be discussed within the framework of the themes of sovereignty and publicness. From this point of view, an effort will be made to make visible both the commonalities and differences of these thinkers in both sections. Thus, their answers to the question of the ways in which the construction of the common good for coexistence is designed will be discussed.