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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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2022 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade de Brasília (UnB) |
| Repository: | Revista de Filosofia Moderna e Contemporânea |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/43972 |
| Online Access: | https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/fmc/article/view/43972 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Thomas Hobbes. Política. Materialismo. Filosofia Moderna. Filosofia Política. Thomas Hobbes. Politics. Materialism. Modern Philosophy. Political Philosophy. |
| Summary: | 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. |
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