A concepção de estado e de direito no Leviatã de Thomas Hobbes

Abstract

The present work aims to understand the Thomas Hobbes’s State and Law conceptions elaborated and presented in his political work the Leviathan. To achieve this goal, the research was based on the bibliographical revisional method, investigating the texts oF other philosophers and researchers that have made interpretations on the statal and jurisprudencial concepts presented by Hobbes. Thus, basing on the knowledge structure developed by the english philopher, the present work was devided in four sections. The first one was destined to sumarize an historical contextualization of the hobbesian work, aiming to reveal the real motivations that led Hobbes to create his theory. The second proposes an analysis of men in the state of nature, showing the notion of war of all against all and how the physical concepts are determinent to the atropological study realized by Hobbes. The third section promoves an analysis of men in the artificial state, where is shown the way that the State and the Law were instituded to establish peace and preserve life. At last, the fourth section analyses the interpretations realized by the concepts presented by Hobbes, allowing us to conclude that any trying to classifie the english philosopher in any doutrine of state or jurisprudence is inadequated, because it supress fundamental aspects os it’s theory.