Finalismo em Thomas Hobbes. / Finality in Thomas Hobbes.
AUTOR(ES)
José Edelberto Araújo de Oliveira
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2009
RESUMO
According to Thomas Hobbes, Philosophy is the exercise of acquiring life-changing knowledge. To Hobbes, the quest concerning the relation between man and natural body as well as that between man and moral body is a search for a reliable scientifical project, with man and State as objects, identifiable with the Galilean spirit of 17th century. This project, putting together Natural and Moral Philosophies, is focused on the quantifiable movements of the natural and political bodies. Hobbes, however, accepts purposes or ends as causes of the organization of nature. This dissertation concerns itself with the relationship between the mechanistic foundation and the concessions to finalism in Hobbes in order to understand how the author s philosophical system maintains cohesion.
ASSUNTO(S)
leviathan science leviatã finalismo mechanism ciência finalism mecanicismo filosofia
