The paper means to propose a comprehensive understanding of Hobbes' Political-philosophy connecti... more The paper means to propose a comprehensive understanding of Hobbes' Political-philosophy connecting the political works of the same Author with those regarding his scientific activity. Hobbes, in his political philosophy, produces, as rational deduction and definition, concepts constituting the paradigm of the modern political theory, as those of individuals, power, sovereignty, State, etc. The one approached by Hobbes is a vision of the human being and of the relations among them that actually represents the canonic and generally accepted dimension of the human relations. His philosophy has in sé the paradigm of the modernity. A conflictual modernity, that leaves the man alone with himself, an independent microcosm in which the principle of the desire does not find any interpersonal pre-existing limitation. In this sense the Hobbes' political philosophy represents at the same time a starting and an arrival point for all the students of this subject. However, he was not only a political philosopher, but also a scientist (half of his works are about science). So, to holistically understand of of the major Author of the Modernity, and at the same time the period and the institutions we are living in, it is important to read together the political and the scientific works. The society must be analyzed via basic concepts that constitute the natural world in general. Society, human being and nature are not completely divisible one from each other, being ontologically similar. The project is constituted essentially by two moments: on one hand there is the rational reconstruction of the natural sciences, while on the other the one of the ethics and politics. These aims, just apparently far from each others, are connected by a specific element, the explanation of everything: the movement. The works taken into consideration are: De Corpore, Elements of Philosophy, De Cive, De Homine, Leviathan. The main focus regards the definition of " Time " given by Hobbes in the De Corpore, considered as a key concept to understand the human experience, so the institutions deriving from this.
The paper means to propose a comprehensive understanding of Hobbes' Political-philosophy connecti... more The paper means to propose a comprehensive understanding of Hobbes' Political-philosophy connecting the political works of the same Author with those regarding his scientific activity. Hobbes, in his political philosophy, produces, as rational deduction and definition, concepts constituting the paradigm of the modern political theory, as those of individuals, power, sovereignty, State, etc. The one approached by Hobbes is a vision of the human being and of the relations among them that actually represents the canonic and generally accepted dimension of the human relations. His philosophy has in sé the paradigm of the modernity. A conflictual modernity, that leaves the man alone with himself, an independent microcosm in which the principle of the desire does not find any interpersonal pre-existing limitation. In this sense the Hobbes' political philosophy represents at the same time a starting and an arrival point for all the students of this subject. However, he was not only a political philosopher, but also a scientist (half of his works are about science). So, to holistically understand of of the major Author of the Modernity, and at the same time the period and the institutions we are living in, it is important to read together the political and the scientific works. The society must be analyzed via basic concepts that constitute the natural world in general. Society, human being and nature are not completely divisible one from each other, being ontologically similar. The project is constituted essentially by two moments: on one hand there is the rational reconstruction of the natural sciences, while on the other the one of the ethics and politics. These aims, just apparently far from each others, are connected by a specific element, the explanation of everything: the movement. The works taken into consideration are: De Corpore, Elements of Philosophy, De Cive, De Homine, Leviathan. The main focus regards the definition of " Time " given by Hobbes in the De Corpore, considered as a key concept to understand the human experience, so the institutions deriving from this.
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