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A Conceptual and Therapeutic Analysis of FearThomas Hobbes and Fear: The Political Use of a Human Emotion

A Conceptual and Therapeutic Analysis of Fear: Thomas Hobbes and Fear: The Political Use of a... [Hobbes’s Leviathan is among the first philosophical texts to provide a systematic argument concerning the crucial role of fear in shaping social institutions, and to examine how this emotion may be manipulated for social control. Hobbes’s political ‘remedy’ for social chaos is the establishment of a powerful sovereign capable of enforcing a strong political system by using the fear of social punishment. It is argued that Hobbes’s political construction does not help to reduce human fears, since it basically consists in a strong state allegedly able to reduce anxiety to ‘tolerable’ levels, but in which the ‘horizon of expectations’ is stabilised by fear.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Conceptual and Therapeutic Analysis of FearThomas Hobbes and Fear: The Political Use of a Human Emotion

Starkstein, Sergio
Springer Journals — Apr 18, 2018
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
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978-3-319-78348-2
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125 –155
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10.1007/978-3-319-78349-9_5
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Abstract

[Hobbes’s Leviathan is among the first philosophical texts to provide a systematic argument concerning the crucial role of fear in shaping social institutions, and to examine how this emotion may be manipulated for social control. Hobbes’s political ‘remedy’ for social chaos is the establishment of a powerful sovereign capable of enforcing a strong political system by using the fear of social punishment. It is argued that Hobbes’s political construction does not help to reduce human fears, since it basically consists in a strong state allegedly able to reduce anxiety to ‘tolerable’ levels, but in which the ‘horizon of expectations’ is stabilised by fear.]

Published: Apr 18, 2018

Keywords: Leviathan; Montaigne; Religious Fear; Blind Hope; Aeschylus

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