Abstract

LIMONGI, Maria Isabel. Representative State / Representative Government: On the Democratic Aspects of Political Representation in Hobbes. Conjectura: filos. e Educ. [online]. 2018, vol.23, n.spe3, pp.147-170.  Epub Sep 02, 2019. ISSN 2178-4612.  https://doi.org/10.18226/21784612.v23.dossie.7.

For Hobbes, representation plays a decisive role in structuring the legal world in which the State consists. It is precisely in this that Rousseau challenges him by saying that Sovereignty (not Government) cannot be represented. In making Sovereignty an instance of representation, especially in the way of thinking the Criminal Law (since, from Hobbes’ point of view, the State does not represent the one to whom it punishes), Hobbes offers a promising conceptual scheme to think one of the greatest challenges of contemporary democracies: How to make Law an inclusion tool, since it is at the same time a tool of exclusion?

Keywords : Hobbes; Rousseau; Representation; State; Democracy.

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