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The aim is to clarify Hobbes's unique contributions to epistemology and the relationship between language and political theory.

Making Man by Word: Hobbes’s Linguistic Politics

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This article elucidates Hobbes's linguistic theory and its impact on moral and political philosophy.

The aim is to clarify Hobbes's unique contributions to epistemology and the relationship between language and political theory.
Analyzed Hobbes's philosophical framework separating natural appearances from artificial language.
Examined key concepts such as ethical relativism, social contract, and the sovereign-subject relationship.
Identified misunderstandings in Hobbes’s epistemology due to a Cartesian viewpoint.
Clarified Hobbes's contributions to moral and political theory, emphasizing ethical relativism in the state of nature.

Ruiyuan Wang (2026) studied this question.

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