- 著者
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小林 弘
- 出版者
- 英米文化学会
- 雑誌
- 現代英米文化 (ISSN:24330728)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.18, pp.115-133, 1988-03-12 (Released:2017-09-07)
In legal theory, law cannot be deduced from right. T. Hobbes may have known this. In Leviathan, however, he draws natural law out of natural right, which makes his political theory complicated. How can we interpret the relation of natural law to natural right in Hobbes? Natural right is definitively considered. What Hobbes calls natural right corresponds to man's behavior in the state of nature. According to his political theory, he defines natural law as the dicates of reason. What he calls reason is deliberation in man7s behavior. Thus, the present author could regard man's behavior as a key to the explanation for Hobbes's concept of natural law and natural right. By mean of the key, the question was worked out whether natural law can be decduced from natural right or not.