Political Science · Western Political Thought
UGC NET November 2017 Political Science
Which political thinker rejects Aristotle completely?
AMachiavelli
BHobbes ✓ Correct
CLocke
DRousseau
Correct answer: (B) Hobbes — The thinker who rejects Aristotle completely is Thomas Hobbes.
Explanation
★The thinker who rejects Aristotle completely is Thomas Hobbes.
★Hobbes broke with the whole Aristotelian and scholastic tradition that had dominated medieval thought.
★He denied Aristotle's teleology, the idea that things and human life move toward a natural end or highest good.
★He replaced the claim that man is by nature a political animal with the view that the state is an artificial creation born of fear.
★Against Aristotle's classification of voluntary and involuntary action, Hobbes built a mechanical, materialist account of human motion.
★This radical break is part of why he is counted, with Machiavelli, among the founders of modern political science.
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