Abstract

NUNEZ, Christian. Laws of Nature or How do People Prepare their Character to Support Civil Status?. Eidos [online]. 2021, n.35, pp.349-373.  Epub Feb 08, 2022. ISSN 1692-8857.  https://doi.org/10.14482/eidos.35.340.1.

In the Leviathan, Hobbes employs the law of nature as the condition of possibility of the epistemological development that transforms the animal into a human in the state of nature. According to this formula, morality develops when men behave according to the non-explicit content of the laws of nature, behavior enabled by their subjection to a strong man who has the moral function of administrating justice. The moral function of the laws of nature is double, those who rule and those who obey, and implies an experience of justice as communication of shared rational postulates that conditions the free actions of men, keeping them united in time.

Keywords : laws of nature; Hobbes; justice; epistemology; representation.

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