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THOMAS HOBBES: A NECESSIDADE DA CRIAÇÃO DO ESTADO.
Authors: Jecson Girão Lopes
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This article emerges with the proposal to explain how, from the political theory of
the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679), generates the necessity of
establishing the state , ie, the Leviathan. This perspective will pervade the whole
course of the Leviathan, as the philosopher shows the grounds and reasons why the
Leviathan should strictly carry out the power, authority, influence, power over their
subjects, because without this exercise of coercive power by the state, humanity
would enter a state of constant war. Thus, imbued with this scope, the author
expresses a legitimate and urgent order to deploy the state