Pub Date : 2022-03-10DOI: 10.1163/18750257-bja10037
Mary Nyquist
In this essay, I examine Hobbes’s interpretation of Scriptural passages that figure prominently in contemporaneous political debates. Hobbes’s interpretative practices affirm his major systematic aims but also contribute to his inventive reenvisioning of Hebraic and Christian political history. The privileged position Hobbes gives Hebraic forms of rule together with his treatment of I Samuel 8 are motivated, in part, by a need to counter Aristotle’s influence on an exegetical tradition that opposes monarchy-as-tyranny in connection with this central, much-debated text. Hobbes conjoins his counter-revolutionary interpretation of 1 Samuel 8 with specific passages in the Christian New Testament that permit him to insert Jesus as “king of the Jews” into a startlingly unique conception of Hebraic and Christian history. This revisionary history and eschatology support Hobbes’s theorization of absolute sovereignty and undercut fantastical beliefs in an immaterial world.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-10DOI: 10.1163/18750257-bja10039
S. Lloyd
Just as some types of philosophical analysis are more useful than others to historians or political scientists, so, I find, are some sorts of historical research more useful to philosophers than are other sorts. Sommerville makes history useful to non-historians by clarifying the large-scale historical background against which his investigative questions are posed, and then separating out crucial figures, ideas, and events from arcana of interest primarily to specialist historians. His interpretations are relatively neutral, striking a welcome balance between mere reporting of events or textual ideas on the one hand, and on the other, accounts so theoretically laden that they prejudge or foreclose promising interpretive possibilities.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-03DOI: 10.1163/18750257-bja10044
L. Iori
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Pub Date : 2022-03-03DOI: 10.1163/18750257-bja10045
J. Sommerville
There are eleven known manuscripts of Hobbes’s Elements of Law. As they divide on textual grounds into two groups, they are effectively two separate editions, employing two different texts. While two of the manuscripts apparently were Hobbes’s working copies, it also seems clear that he never definitively established the text of the Elements. There are reasons for thinking it unlikely that, as has been suggested, Hobbes intended the work to influence debate in the Short Parliament. More likely, he hoped his patron, Newcastle, would transmit his principles to the monarch and his chief advisors.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-03DOI: 10.1163/18750257-bja10042
Daniel J. Kapust, Brandon P. Turner
Hobbes Studies presents a special issue dedicated to the career and work of Professor Johann Sommerville on the occasion of his retirement. This introduction provides a brief overview of Sommerville’s professional achievements and the major themes of his scholarly work over the past forty years. It closes with a very brief summary of the contributions made in his honor.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-02DOI: 10.1163/18750257-bja10038
C. Cuttica
Well-known for his work on absolutism, divine right theory, and his contextual reading of Hobbes’ ideas, Sommerville also published successful critical editions of Sir Robert Filmer and King James vi and I’s political writing. Sommerville’s engagement in key historiographical debates on early- modern British history, involving “opposing camps” of revisionists and post-revisionists, is less explored. Here, I focus on the question whether pre-Civil War England was immune to ideological conflict or, instead, featured a confrontation between King and Parliament based on ideas of power, liberty and obedience. I also highlight the continued relevance of Sommerville’s innovative account of English political thought as deeply shaped by European theories. His work reminds us of the role of the history of political thought in rectifying false claims and unchecked opinions, so commonly expounded in our divided world. In conclusion, I advance my own critical interpretation of Sommerville’s views on absolutism and patriarchalism.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-02DOI: 10.1163/18750257-bja10041
Xinzhi Zhao
This paper recounts my encounter with the ideological context of Hobbes’s system as a graduate student in political theory through the teaching and scholarship of Professor Johann Sommerville. This encounter made me recognize that political theorists should study not only systems of political philosophy but also their ideological contexts, whose primary components are not “languages” but ideas and arguments deployed in debates concerning issues of political legitimacy of a particular time. Specifically, I realized that incorporating ideological contexts into the study of political theory could render the quest for legitimate political orders in different ages and cultures accessible to modern readers of diverse backgrounds, enable a more accurate grasp of the originality of a philosophical system, and uncover new resources for political theorizing.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-02DOI: 10.1163/18750257-bja10043
Victor Lenthe
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Pub Date : 2022-02-23eCollection Date: 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1002/dad2.12294
Gabriela Stegmann, Shira Hahn, Samarth Bhandari, Kan Kawabata, Jeremy Shefner, Cayla Jessica Duncan, Julie Liss, Visar Berisha, Kimberly Mueller
We developed and evaluated an automatically extracted measure of cognition (semantic relevance) using automated and manual transcripts of audio recordings from healthy and cognitively impaired participants describing the Cookie Theft picture from the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination. We describe the rationale and metric validation. We developed the measure on one dataset and evaluated it on a large database (>2000 samples) by comparing accuracy against a manually calculated metric and evaluating its clinical relevance. The fully automated measure was accurate (r = .84), had moderate to good reliability (intra-class correlation = .73), correlated with Mini-Mental State Examination and improved the fit in the context of other automatic language features (r = .65), and longitudinally declined with age and level of cognitive impairment. This study demonstrates the use of a rigorous analytical and clinical framework for validating automatic measures of speech, and applied it to a measure that is accurate and clinically relevant.
我们开发并评估了一种自动提取的认知(语义相关性)测量方法,该方法使用的是健康和认知障碍参与者描述波士顿诊断性失语症检查中库克盗窃图片的自动和手动录音记录。我们介绍了该方法的原理和度量验证。我们在一个数据集上开发了该测量方法,并在一个大型数据库(>2000 个样本)上对其进行了评估,比较了其与人工计算公式的准确性,并评估了其临床相关性。该全自动测量方法准确度高(r = .84),具有中等至良好的可靠性(类内相关性 = .73),与迷你精神状态检查(Mini-Mental State Examination)相关,在其他自动语言特征的背景下提高了拟合度(r = .65),并且随着年龄和认知障碍程度的增加而纵向下降。这项研究展示了如何使用严格的分析和临床框架来验证自动语言测量,并将其应用于准确且与临床相关的测量。
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