abstract:Hobbes's philosophy involves a fundamental shift in ideas about the theological, metaphysical, and axiological significance of sex, gender, reproduction, and the family. He fundamentally rejects the idea that dominion is naturally or divinely ordained, using a strategy I call 'dethroning.' In this paper, I argue that the Amazon myth, which Hobbes invokes in every version of his political theory, is one such act of rhetorical dethroning in that it attacks naturalized familial and gender hierarchies, denying natural parent/child, as well as husband/wife, relations of rule and subordination. Substantive discussions of Hobbes's use of the Amazons in the secondary literature are few and consist of contradictory understandings of the example, with some seeing it as a prototype of early feminism and others seeing it as a retrenchment of misogyny and racism. I use my interpretation, one that makes sense of the example by reference to the internal logic of Hobbes's overall philosophical and political project, in order to examine both sides of this debate.

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霍布斯亚马逊人的奇事

摘要：霍布斯的哲学涉及关于性、性别、生殖和家庭的神学、形而上学和价值论意义的观念的根本转变。他使用一种我称之为“废黜”的策略从根本上拒绝了统治权是自然或神圣注定的观点。在这篇论文中，我认为霍布斯在其政治理论的每个版本中都引用了亚马逊神话，它是一种修辞式的废黜行为，它攻击归化的家庭和性别等级制度，否认亲生父母/孩子以及丈夫/妻子，统治和从属关系。关于霍布斯在二级文献中使用亚马逊的实质性讨论很少，并且包含对示例的相互矛盾的理解，有些人将其视为早期女权主义的原型，而另一些人则将其视为对厌女症和种族主义的缩减。我使用我的解释，通过参考霍布斯整个哲学和政治计划的内在逻辑来理解这个例子，以检查这场辩论的双方。