Corps naturel et corps politique chez Montaigne et Hobbes Réflexions sur le peuple, l’allégeance et la servitude

If Hobbes maintained the integrity of man by removing all possibility of individual action – a kind of disenfranchisement of his sociability that nevertheless left his political essence intact –, Montaigne and La Boétie proposed a similar conception of « obedience to public reason » and voluntary servitude which considerably limited the very notion of liberty.