The Politics of Materialism in Thomas Hobbes

Hobbes makes a new interpretation about politics backgrounded in full materialistic conception. His materialistic ontology denies the separate essences from the traditional metaphysics and denies the Aristotelian idea of politics as essential nature of humanity.  Unlike this view, Hobbes sh...

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Autor: de Souza Coelho, David Emanuel
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade de Brasília (UnB)
Repositorio:Revista de Filosofia Moderna e Contemporânea
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/43972
Acesso em linha:https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/fmc/article/view/43972
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Thomas Hobbes. Política. Materialismo. Filosofia Moderna. Filosofia Política.
Thomas Hobbes. Politics. Materialism. Modern Philosophy. Political Philosophy.
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Resumo:Hobbes makes a new interpretation about politics backgrounded in full materialistic conception. His materialistic ontology denies the separate essences from the traditional metaphysics and denies the Aristotelian idea of politics as essential nature of humanity.  Unlike this view, Hobbes shows that the politics is created by human beings from the power fight and power is a way of satisfying the human desires by synthetized objects and relations. In this way, politics aims to satisfy concrete human needs and the power itself, before being political, is an expression from human activity. Besides, politics exists only while it can keep effective protection for citizens, because its existence depends on its material effectivity.