The Politics of Materialism in Thomas Hobbes

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https://doi.org/10.26512/rfmc.v10i2.43972

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Thomas Hobbes. Politics. Materialism. Modern Philosophy. Political Philosophy.

Abstract

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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David Emanuel de Souza Coelho, Universidade do Estado do Mato Grosso, Unemat

Doutor em Filosofia pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). Professor da Universidade do Estado do Mato Grosso (Unemat).

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HOBBES, Thomas. Behemoth: the history and the causes of the Civil Wars of

England. Londres: Routledge, 1997a. (The Collected English Works of Thomas Hobbes).

________________. De Corpore. Londres: Routledge, 1997b. (The Collected English

Works of Thomas Hobbes).

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FRATESCHI, Yara. A Física da Política: Hobbes contra Aristóteles. Campinas:

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PARKIN, Jon. Taming the Leviathan: The Reception of the Political and Religious Ideas of Thomas Hobbes in England 1640-1700. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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Published

2022-08-31

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DE SOUZA COELHO, David Emanuel. The Politics of Materialism in Thomas Hobbes. Journal of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, [S. l.], v. 10, n. 2, p. 199–222, 2022. DOI: 10.26512/rfmc.v10i2.43972. Disponível em: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/fmc/article/view/43972. Acesso em: 16 feb. 2025.

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Vol. 10 No. 2 (2022): Dossiê "Fenomenologias e Interfaces com a Clínica Interdisciplinar"

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