Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica (Jan 2017)

Fragments of the organic metaphor in modern political thought

  • Daniel J. García López

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14422/pen.v72.i272.y2016.014
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 72, no. 272
pp. 735 – 760

Abstract

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The article analyzes the survival of the organic metaphor in the beginning of Modernity, against the Bobbio’thesis: the organicism disappears with Modernity. From the thought of Hobbes, Rousseau, Beccaria and Sieyès, we show the connection between the old metaphor and the modern immune paradigm.

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