Visions of Death and Longing: Comparing Hobbes and Locke on Eros

• In Event: Medieval and Early Modern Visions of Politics

Brief Overview

This paper compares Hobbes’ theory of civil society and its relation to the fear of violent death with Locke’s vision of politics and human psychology, analyzing their treatments of eros and mortality, and discussing the consequences for liberalism.

Authors

• Rachel Wagner, University of Toronto

• Beckett Francis Rueda, Independent Researcher