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Gabriella Silvestrini
This article focuses on how Thomas Hobbes and his critics worked out the concept of concord. It aims to test the hypothesis that there has been a "hobbesian turn" concerning concord. In order to verify this hypothesis we will undertake a close analysis of the occurrences of the term "concord" in Hobbes' central texts and Richard Cumberland's De Legibus Naturae. It will be argued that -despite Hobbes' pivotal role- the notion of concord has become less prominent in the main treatises on the law of nature and nations as a consequence os a comprehensive transformation of this discipline that cannot be traced exclusively to the influence of Hobbes.
