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II-THE END OF PHILOSOPHY (THE CASE OF HOBBES)

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Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought Philosophical Ethics and Theory Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics

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In the first three sections, I argue that Hobbes has a distinctive conception of philosophy, the highest value of which is not truth, but human benefit; and that his philosophical utterances are constrained by this value (both insofar as they are philosophical in particular, and insofar as they are public utterances of any kind). I address an evidentiary problem for this view in the penultimate section, and then turn to the question of how such a conception of philosophy requires different interpretations of particular philosophical positions. The whole is intended as a case study of the need for an interpreter to understand how the interpreted philosopher conceives of the nature and aim of his undertaking.

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