PHILOSOPHY

Philosophy

Philosophy

Introduction

Thomas Hobbes was born in England in 1558. He was considered a man of great intellectual kind, curious and shy. His fate has lived in a time as a lover of peace and tranquility. Hobbes from his youth took interest in political and religious discussions on the interpretation of the Bible and the rights of conscience individual. In his opinion these discussions strengthened the nation, undermined the authority at its base and prepared the war civil (Kinney, 2000, p.10).

In 1640, when war seemed to approach, he fled from England to Paris and went to his voluntary exile of eleven and prepared his Leviathan. Meanwhile, since he had fallen into the strong and skillful hands of the Tudors, in the dull of the Stuarts, who had known no more seizures. In the fury of religious disputes (Protestants and Catholics, Anglicans and Protestants among dissidents) exacerbates, there were the fury of the passion policies, forming a blend all incendiary.

The Hobbesian conception of the state of nature departs from the heavenly sense, that the state assigns the thinking theologically. Hobbes clearly separates two stages: a state of barbarism and war of all against all, a world without germ of law, and moreover, a state created and sustained by law, a state with enough power to start and reform its structure (Martinich, 1997, p.12).

According to Hobbes, nature has made men so equal in the faculties of body and spirit that, if a man is stronger or have cleverer body of understanding that other element, when considered together, the difference between men is not as important. So they can claim based on it and for themselves, any benefit to which another may not pretend.

Discussion

State of Nature

In this first part of the work, Hobbes begins with the study of man in himself, and power from the society. He analyzes the knowledge of man, whose origin is based on experience. The experience, according to Hobbes, is formed by the repetition of events that are stored in memory so they are a source of sensations that allow the production of images stored. The memories are used in these combinations and enable man to mentally simulate future events and acquire. He will act according to their experience, trying to avoid the unwanted results that has been in previous times. The key element that will make this process much faster is the word, allowing the transit of the mental into the verbal, oral and written, favoring thus the emergence of the truth. If we tell the truth we pass on our expertise and get attention from other and can complement each other. However, the lack of truthfulness in this communication would have an adverse effect on our prudence, having wrong data. The speech is, however, the source of errors and deceptions that should be eliminated in order to obtain rigorous definitions that, in turn, become gateways to science. These errors have to be inevitably bad intentions for others but because of a lack of precise language, the ...