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- Title
The Governing of Opinions: Hobbes on How Civic Education and Censorship Impact Subjects' Deliberation.
- Authors
Oliveira, Mariana Kuhn de
- Abstract
Thomas Hobbes's most important recommendations for a sovereign reader concerned the governing of opinion. Due to the spread of false doctrines and their powerful champions, Hobbes was afraid that subjects would have opinions contrary to the maintenance of peace. His solution comprehended a combination of civic education and censorship. This text explains how Hobbes justifies his recommendations from the perspective of individual deliberation. It argues that Hobbes conceived censoring circulating doctrines as a way of keeping subjects' minds like clean paper, ready for the sovereign to imprint civil doctrine in them through teaching, thereby increasing the chances of influencing subjects' (free) deliberation, and thus of producing obedience.
- Subjects
CIVICS education; CENSORSHIP; DOCTRINAL theology; OBEDIENCE; RELIGION
- Publication
Disputatio: International Journal of Philosophy, 2022, Vol 14, Issue 67, p395
- ISSN
0873-626X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2478/disp-2022-0019