Thomas Hobbes: Selected Summaries: SELECTED SUMMARIES

By MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

In addition to a summary of the essentials of the classic work Leviathan (1651), we offer the reader a description of the historical context in which Hobbes wrote in England in the seventeenth century, the height of the absolutist state.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU
• Release date: Oct 26, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201564124

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Mauricio Enrique Fau nació en Buenos Aires en 1965. Se recibió de Licenciado en Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cursó también Derecho en la UBA y Periodismo en la Universidad de Morón. Realizó estudios en FLACSO Argentina. Docente de la UBA y AUTOR DE MÁS DE 3.000 RESÚMENES de Psicología, Sociología, Ciencia Política, Antropología, Derecho, Historia, Epistemología, Lógica, Filosofía, Economía, Semiología, Educación y demás disciplinas de las Ciencias Sociales. Desde 2005 dirige La Bisagra Editorial, especializada en técnicas de estudio y materiales que facilitan la transición desde la escuela secundaria a la universidad. Por intermedio de La Bisagra publicó 38 libros. Participa en diversas ferias del libro, entre ellas la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires y la FIL Guadalajara.

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Thomas Hobbes: Selected Summaries

SELECTED SUMMARIES

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THOMAS HOBBES: SELECTED SUMMARIES

First edition. October 26, 2021.

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ISBN: 979-8201564124

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LEVIATHAN

The THEORY OF SOCIAL CONTRACT OR CONTRACTUALISM is an attempt to explain the emergence of national societies. They began to speak of a STATE OF NATURE, as a pre-social situation, and of a certain nature of man, which varies according to the author. The next thing was to establish that men abandon that state of nature and sign a SOCIAL CONTRACT by which they go on to form a society. This abstract idea has to do with the interests of the time in which it was created: it sought to highlight some aspects such as private property, political rights, individual freedoms, relations between the rulers and the ruled, etc.

The central concern was to provide certain operating guidelines for societies that, after the dismantling of feudalism, were unable to define a specific order. A new order was sought, a new stability. The role of the State in that order will vary according to the author.

Thomas Hobbes (English, 1588-1679)

Hobbes is a witness to the Cromnwell Revolution, in the mid-17th century, and the regicide of Charles I.

HIS OBJECTIVES OF HIM WERE ORIENTED TO AVOID CIVIL WAR AND DEFEND THE ABSOLUTE MONARCHY

For Hobbes, the STATE OF NATURE is ANTISOCIAL, selfish, with a man guided by his instinct for self-preservation that leads him to a WAR OF ALL AGAINST ALL.

The CONTRACT is signed TO GET OUT OF THAT STATE OF HIGHEST DANGER, and men delegate all their rights to the State (the Leviathan), who would now take care of order and have the SOLE AND UNDISCUTABLE SOVEREIGNTY OR AUTHORITY. Hobbes, in his argument for despotism, eliminated all traces of religious thought and did not take into account economic elements. The political is power, order, as opposed to the state of nature that is anarchy and chaos.

CHAPTER 10 ON POWER, ESTIMATION, DIGNITY, HONOR AND TITLE TO THINGS

MAN'S POWER is divided into NATURAL, which refers to the faculties of the body or intelligence, and INSTRUMENTAL, which is acquired through natural power. The greatest power is that of the STATE.

There are things that reflect power, such as the reputation of power, any quality that makes a man loved or feared, success, prudence, nobility, eloquence, good manners, the arts of public utility.

ESTIMATE is the price of a man, given by others and expressed in honor or dishonor. DIGNITY is the value conferred on a man by the State. HONOR is synonymous with obeying, loving, fearing, agreeing. DISHONOR is to disobey, to disagree.

Everything that implies power is HONORABLE: to be honest, dominant, victorious, strong, rich, distinguished, greedy, ambitious; regardless of whether or not there is justice. Titles of honor are also honorable. EXCELLENCE is the aptitude or ability in which you excel.

CHAPTER 11 ON THE DIFFERENCE OF WAYS

WAYS