Politics and Salus Populi:Hobbes and the Sovereign as Physician of the State  

作　　者：Raffaella Santi 

机构地区：[1]University of Urbino Carlo Bo,Urbino,Italy

出　　处：《Journal of Philosophy Study》2020年第11期693-702,共10页哲学研究（英文版）

摘　　要：In his masterpiece Leviathan(1651),Thomas Hobbes used a series of rhetorical devices in order to persuade the English reader of the truth of his political theories and of his civil science.The first rhetorical device is the engraved frontispiece of the book,where the sword of justice held by the sovereign is also a powerful sword of rhetoric(as shown by the table depicting Rhetoric in a Martianus Capella’s manuscript owned by the Duke of Urbino).Moreover,Hobbes employs directly the metaphor of the state as a body politic and the analogy of the sovereign as the soul of the state and he also refers—though indirectly—to the Platonic analogy of the sovereign as physician of the state,evoking political thinkers,such as King James VI&I and Edward Forset.

关 键 词：HOBBES PLATO Forset James VI&I RHETORIC body politic diseases of the body politic physician of the body politic the safety of the people(salus populi) 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]