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La causalidad mecanicista como fundamento de la politica en Hobbes
Mechanical casualty as a fundament of politics at Hobbes
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Abstract The political theory of Thomas Hobbes consider that the social order started with three primaries states: natural state, social contract and civil state. This article tries to demonstrate that in order to better understand the political thinking of Hobbes we must take in consideration the materialis... view more
The political theory of Thomas Hobbes consider that the social order started with three primaries states: natural state, social contract and civil state. This article tries to demonstrate that in order to better understand the political thinking of Hobbes we must take in consideration the materialist-mechanical principles of his ontology, because these explain the final aspects of human existence. The method used by Hobbes is descriptive-compositive which has as finality the knowledge of the whole reality by the meaning of discovering its origins. The establishment of civil order is based not only on the psychological premises of the people in the natural state, but also requires the support of a reality adapted to this state. In this sense the hobbesian determinism places the individual in a network of complex causal relations which oblige him to institute the social contract, which is needed by the functioning of the subject in the natural order.... view less
Keywords
philosophy; political theory
Classification
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Political Science
Philosophy, Ethics, Religion
Free Keywords
Hobbes, T.
Document language
Spanish
Publication Year
2005
Page/Pages
p. 837-848
Journal
Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review, 5 (2005) 4
ISSN
1582-4551
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 1.0