From war to deal: Thomas Hobbes

Abstract

The text will present at first “war” as an inherent action to the biological condition of man in his state of nature, being considered as a common instinct of the human in its wildest state. Then, the “war” will be presented as a process of transformation when the man, now in his civil state, assigns his rights to a sovereign, which must ensure their survival, and will abate the phase of “all against all” typical of the state of nature. The transfer to the rights to a supreme being is achieved through the “deal” or the “social contract”; thus, it was born what is called the “State”. Finally, the text will resolve the question: how far does the pact transform the aberrant condition of war, of humanity itself?