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By Eleanor Curran
'There are not any noticeable rights for topics in Hobbes's political thought, basically naked freedoms with no correlated tasks to guard them'. Curran demanding situations this orthodoxy of Hobbes scholarship, and argues that Hobbes's concept isn't really a concept of typical rights yet quite, a contemporary, secular thought of rights, with relevance to fashionable rights conception.
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On the question of royalism, I do not think that the evidence is as overwhelming as most recent Hobbes scholarship has assumed. Hobbes’s loyalty to the royalist cause is unlikely to be as strong as it was among his employers, the Cavendish family, and other aristocratic, royalist families, whose loyalties were probably tribal as much as intellectual. Hobbes was not one of them. When these great men of state were sitting discussing politics Hobbes was, with the other secretaries and employees of his ilk, not taking part but sitting in an anteroom, chatting with the others, waiting to be released from duty (Tuck, 1989, p.
Leviathan, as mentioned above, was seen by some royalists as a justification of the rebellion; others saw it as staunchly royalist in its main argument but as containing a way for those who had loyally supported Charles I through the Civil War to submit to the new government and try to regain Examining the Orthodoxy 19 estates lost during the Civil War (Leviathan, p. 719). Some who did this were able to regain their estates and fortunes. As Martinich notes, this strategy was particularly important for the Earl of Devonshire, ‘who had made peace with Parliament even before the death of the king and thereby saved his estates from confiscation’ (Martinich, 1999, p.
Perhaps you will take for a sign of Mr. Hobbes his ill meaning, that his Majesty was displeased with him. , p. 424). He was assured by many people, he says, that ‘his Majesty had a good opinion of him’ and ‘testified his esteem of him in his bounty’. Here Hobbes is probably referring to the pension of one hundred pounds a year that Charles II sometimes paid him after the Restoration. And it is true that Charles, having refused to see him at St Germain, accepted him again at court, after the Restoration.