Political Science International(PSI)

Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Indiana University-Indianapolis, USA

Publications

• Mini Review Article   
  Thomas Hobbs and American Indians
  Author(s): Stephen M Sachs*
  
  Thomas Hobbs, one of the early founders of modern political science whose seminal work, Leviathan, which initiated major shifts in mainstream political theory has been called by one of his biographers," a Bible for Modern Man," had a negative view of Indians, yet they had a tremendous impact upon his thinking and writing. Largely because of what he heard about Natives of the Americas, Hobbs shifted the definition of "nature" in western philosophy from the telos or ultimate end of something to its conditions at its origins. For example, where the nature of an oak tree had previously seen in the ideal oak tree, with Hobbs the nature of the oak tree was now to be found in the acorn. In addition, where previously mainstream theory believed rights were a good that it was up to the sovereign to provide as seemed prudent, with Hobbs for the first time there is the beginni.. Read More»
  

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