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If politics be theatre, a drama within the play of life, what is political philosophy? Prompting from the wings? Puppeteering from the proscenium? Or can the philosopher hope to realise Plato’s aspiration to be actor-manager of the whole show? These questions concern all who have both an instinct for liberty and a nose for philosophy.
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Thomas A. Spragens, The Politics of Motion (London, 1973 ).
For an example of the perplexity which results from seeking only univocal logic in Hobbes’s treatment of liberty, see J. R. Pennock, ‘Hobbes’s Confusing Clarity, the Case of Liberty’, in Hobbes Studies, ed. K. C. Brown (Oxford, 1965 ).
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Orr, R. (1987). Hobbes on the Regulation of Voluntary Motion. In: Feaver, G., Rosen, F. (eds) Lives, Liberties and the Public Good. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08006-9_4
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