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Fernández Peychaux, Diego Alejandro
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spa
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148 p.
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Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyze the dynamic composition of the singular body and the collective body within the political theory of Thomas Hobbes. All hypothesis-testing should be registered as the intention of reading the relationship between Hobbes's natural philosophy and civil philosophy as the attempt of proposing a normative articulation between the perpetual movement of an elusive desire and the necessary creation of political order. I would like to propose a review of Hobbes's mechanization in accordance with one critical materialism which problematizes the traditional reading about the physical matter in Hobbes, to going further into the radical consequences of the mechanistic paradigm, I particularly want to spell out the premises that Hobbes weaves around the singular and collective body. To achieve this aim, the work is divided into three chapters in which it is undertaking a project for setting out links between the Hobbesian notion of potentiae and felicitas. In the first chapter, I will do a historical contextualization on the reception of Hobbesian materialism and one particular reception developed by Margaret Cavendish. In addition to that, I will discuss the Hobbesian's refutations to Descartes's Metaphysical Meditations –Third Objections–. In the second chapter, my aim is deploying, from the context of early European modernity, the uppermost issues in Thomas Hobbes's theory of perception, causality, and the singular body. In the third chapter, I would like to problematize the theory of government regimes, the composition of sovereign power together with the presence and emergence of collective bodies within the State. In the light of all this, should give rise to more resolute reading with regard to the relevance of the conflict yielded by many bodies endowed by a perpetual motion, looking for the felicity, strengthening the diversity of multiple potentiae fronts the necessity of one political unity embodied in the potestas. The unfolding of this horizon of meaning allows us to consider a critical materialist reconstruction of notions such as: mind, conatus, felicitas, potentia and democratic regime, within Hobbesian political theory. In the same way, the possibility of interpreting the relationship between the doctrine of felicitas progressus perpetuus and the convergence between various potentiae with sovereign power is verified as a link with normative practical force in constant motion.
Título obtenido
Magíster de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Teoría Política y Social
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales