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The consepts of power and justice in Thomas Hobbes

2010
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Advisor: Yrd. Doç. Dr. Kenan Yakuboğlu

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The topic of power and justice being still discussed nowadays dates back to prehistoric times. The terms of power and justice have had different meanings in historical process up to these days. But however the meanings are different, a sense of power which doesn?t include the justice have never been possible at any age. By this way, every sense of power have only existed together with the sense of justice.In spite of bringing with the idea of modern state, modern sense of politics has put forth a new sense of power and justice. Hobbes completing the formation of modern state in historical process, quoted the process of agreement concerning human nature and the process of modern sense of state based agreement. By this way he established Laviathan meaning State called as well ?Deadly God? Hobbes believed that human being lives a normal life with only the existence of absolutepower.Key Words: Power, Sovereignty, Right, Law, Justice, State, Political Philosophy

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Dr. Hakan Koçdemir

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Hakan Koçdemir (Master Thesis). The consepts of power and justice in Thomas Hobbes, 2010, Dicle University.

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