While there are old questions in research on Hobbes regarding which audience he addressed in each of his different works – e.g. there are speculations that De Cive is addressed to scientists and Leviathan to the English people – another question has rarely been discussed and only recently reconsidered: Might Hobbes have addressed different audiences also within one and the same text, and if so, might he have intended to communicate different messages to different readers? As ‘Straussian’ as this question might sound, it does not require us to impose external principles of hermeneutics on Hobbes’s texts. As this paper will argue, there is strong plausibility for the claim that Hobbes himself believes in the possibility and the necessity of ‘diversified communication’ or, to state it differently, to communicate different things to different people within one and the same text. By analysing Hobbes’s passion-grounded hermeneutics that is expressed both in Hobbes’s political writings and in his writings on science and on poetry, I show that it is very likely that Hobbes wrote ‘not all to all’ but instead designed different arguments for different people. Employing the heterogeneity principle in interpreting Hobbes’s texts might thus shed new light on some persistent puzzles of Hobbes’s political philosophy.

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'我自称不是全部写给所有人'

虽然关于霍布斯在他的每部不同作品中针对哪些受众的研究中存在一些古老的问题——例如，有人猜测 De Cive 是针对科学家的，而 Leviathan 是针对英国人的——但另一个问题很少被讨论，直到最近才重新考虑：霍布斯是否可能也在同一个文本中向不同的受众发表讲话，如果是这样，他是否打算向不同的读者传达不同的信息？尽管这个问题听起来像是“施特劳斯式的”，但它并不要求我们将解释学的外部原则强加于霍布斯的文本。正如本文将要论证的那样，霍布斯本人相信“多样化交流”的可能性和必要性，或者换一种说法，这种说法很有道理，在同一个文本中向不同的人传达不同的东西。通过分析霍布斯的政治著作以及他关于科学和诗歌的著作中所表达的霍布斯基于激情的诠释学，我表明很可能霍布斯写的是“并非所有人”，而是为不同的人设计了不同的论点。因此，在解释霍布斯的文本时采用异质性原则可能会为霍布斯政治哲学中一些顽固的谜题提供新的线索。