Vulnerability between political theory and normative texts: a new language to repeat old things or a new tool to problematize differences in social power?

• Autores: Emilio Santoro
• Localización: Revista de Estudos Constitucionais, Hermenêutica e Teoria do Direito (RECHTD), ISSN-e 2175-2168, Vol. 12, Nº. 3, 2020 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Setembro/Dezembro), págs. 311-334
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Through perspective of vulnerability, it springs to mind that exposure to vulnus is the primary engine of the Hobbesian mechanism: it is the reason for the "mutuall Relation between Protection and Obedience" (Hobbes 1651, 445). Vulnerability is the source of the Leviathan-state’s legitimacy: it is its ability to protect and guarantee physical security from assaults and to allow for its relative certainty over time, which rationally bases the relationship of subordination.