文档介绍：Some Problems in the Analysis of Political Thought and Action
Quentin Skinner
Political Theory, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Aug., 1974), 277-303.
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Sat Apr 9 18:37:57 2005
Ill. SOME PROBLEMS IN THE
ANALYSIS OF POLITICAL
THOUGHT AND ACTION
QUENTIN SKINNER
Chr~st'sCdIep (Cambridge, England)
not just for thelr generosity menting on my work, but also for their
accuracy m reporting my arguments and thelr perceptiveness as critics. It
seems possible to respond to thelr remarks in one of two ways. One would
be to pursue the implications of Wiener's article and try to provlde some
more hstorical Information about the context of Hobbes's political
thought. Thls strikes me as an attractive alternative, especially since I agree
wth his suggestion that I ought to devote more attention to analyslng the
nature of the soclal pressures which helped to prompt Hobbes and hls
sympathlsers t