The concept of Social Ethics and Its Relation to the Politics from Hobbes Point of View

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Karimi, Sasan | 2014

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Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
Language: Farsi
Document No: 46486 (42)
University: Sharif University of Technology
Department: Philosophy of Science
Advisor(s): Taghavi, Mostafa
Abstract:
In this thesis, I study the concept of social ethics from a modern point of view. What I call modernity, is the fundamental philosophical revolution happened in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe, this period is called “Enlightenment”, what I assume is from Machiavelli to Kant. One of the most important philosophers belongs to this enlightenment period is Thomas Hobbes, a Scottish philosopher whose main book “Leviathan” is well-known as the basis of the modern politics. Modern politics makes sense against classical one, founded by Aristotle in a book mentioned under the same title. What Hobbes describes as society based on public interests etc. is in a different point of view than classical concept of Polis which is based on happy life. These changes are fundamental ones in politics and social sciences, what happened to physics and the natural sciences during the same period by Galilei and Newton. Modernity is constructed on a different base, which is the “Pure Reason”. Modern society is ¬–ore or less Hobbesian. The “person” in the modern society is the same “economic person”
Keywords:
Law ; Social Ethics ; Society ; Enlightement ; Political Ethics

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