自我保存的自由——霍布斯不被强迫自证其罪权利思想研究

The Freedom of Self - conservation:On Hobbes' Theory of Privilege against Self- incrimination

作为近代政治哲学的奠基人之一,霍布斯关于不被强迫自证其罪权利思想既有传承,也有发扬光大之处。他用自我保存的人性论和契约论首次对其进行了严密的论证。正是自他开始,不被强迫自证其罪权利才第一次获得了近代个人主义意义上的证明,被视为每一个人都不可剥夺的自我保存的自由。其思想于我们当下仍有现实意义。

As one of the founder of modem political philosophy, Hobbes inherited the theory of privilege against self- incrimination, and then developed it by his unprecedented demonstration with the theory of human nature and social contract. Just from Hobbes, the privilege against self- incrimination was proved in meaning of modem individualism for the first time, and was regarded as inalienable freedom of self- conservation for everybody, which provides practicing significance in nowadays.