@article{THESIS,
      recid = {3285},
      author = {Kaplan, Andrew},
      title = {Reinterpreting the Frameworks: Hobbes & Grotius on the  Right of Resistance, Slavery, & Ius Naturale},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {M.A.},
      address = {2021-08},
      number = {THESIS},
      abstract = {The seventeenth century marks several radical  philosophical and political changes for Europe. Two such  writers who emerged during this period are Hugh Grotius and  Thomas Hobbes. Individually, their respective contributions  to political theory are already widely acknowledged.  However, their relationship to one another, and their  respective relations to the wider trends evident in  political thought at the time are of much greater  contestation. Richard Tuck argues in Natural Rights  Theories and The Right of War and Peace that Grotius ought  be considered as a foundational thinker of natural rights  in the period, and a formative influence on the natural  rights theory of Hobbes. However, this interpretation of  Hobbes as following in Grotius’ footsteps is criticized by  Perez Zagorin, who instead holds that while both Grotius  and Hobbes are indeed influenced to some extent by their  contemporary intellectual trends, the two are themselves  wholly independent thinkers. This paper seeks to evaluate  the claims made by both Tuck and Zagorin. In it I argue  that, while Hobbes is deeply indebted to Grotius for his  methodological and theoretical underpinnings as defended by  Tuck, Zagorin is likewise correct in his assessments that  Grotius had at least to some extent by Hobbes’ time become  part of the philosophical æther, and that Grotius’s strong  connection to his predecessors and his reliance on the  individual will as directly connected to God’s locate him  as equally aligned with both his philosophical predecessors  and successors. This interpretation is defended largely  through the examination of Hobbes and Grotius on two  primary issues; their respective views on slavery, and the  right of resistance.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/3285},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.3285},
}