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Abstract
This paper aims at thoroughly analyzing the relation between Thucydides’s political realism and Hobbes’s one, first of all by examining the Hobbesian translation of The Peloponnesian War, then by stressing the peculiarities of the political theory of the English philosopher. Compared to Thucydides, Hobbes presents a more complex, problematic – and truly more useful to define a theory of modernity – version of political realism, which considers not only power and security, but also ideological elements in order to understand human conflicts.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
Marxism and Critical Theory
Political Theology and Sovereignty
Publication details
- Publisher
- Firenze University Press
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 5–34
- Publication date
- 8 July 2026
- Language
- EN