Frases de Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes foi um matemático, teórico político e filósofo inglês, autor de Leviatã e Do cidadão . Na obra Leviatã, explanou os seus pontos de vista sobre a natureza humana e sobre a necessidade de um governo e de uma sociedade fortes. No estado natural, embora alguns homens possam ser mais fortes ou mais inteligentes do que outros, nenhum se ergue tão acima dos demais de forma a estar isento do medo de que outro homem lhe possa fazer mal. Por isso, cada um de nós tem direito a tudo e, uma vez que todas as coisas são escassas, existe uma constante guerra de todos contra todos . No entanto, os homens têm um desejo, que é também em interesse próprio, de acabar com a guerra e, por isso, formam sociedades através de um contrato social.De acordo com Hobbes, tal sociedade necessita de uma autoridade à qual todos os membros devem render o suficiente da sua liberdade natural, de forma que a autoridade possa assegurar a paz interna e a defesa comum. Este soberano, quer seja um monarca ou uma assembleia , deveria ser o Leviatã, uma autoridade inquestionável. A teoria política do Leviatã mantém, no essencial, as ideias de suas duas obras anteriores, Os elementos da lei e Do cidadão .

Thomas Hobbes defendia a ideia segundo a qual os homens só podem viver em paz se concordarem em submeter-se a um poder absoluto e centralizado. O Estado não pode estar sujeito às leis por ele criadas pois isso seria infringir sua soberania. Para ele, a Igreja cristã e o Estado cristão formavam um mesmo corpo, encabeçado pelo monarca, que teria o direito de interpretar as Escrituras, decidir questões religiosas e presidir o culto. Neste sentido, critica a livre interpretação da Bíblia na Reforma Protestante por, de certa forma, enfraquecer o monarca. Sua filosofia política foi analisada pelo cientista político Richard Tuck como uma resposta para os problemas que o método cartesiano introduziu para a filosofia moral. Hobbes argumenta que só podemos conhecer algo do mundo exterior a partir das impressões sensoriais que temos dele . Esta filosofia é vista como uma tentativa de embasar uma teoria coerente de uma formação social puramente no fato das impressões em si, a partir da tese de que as impressões sensoriais são suficientes para o homem agir no sentido de preservar sua própria vida. A partir desse imperativo, Hobbes constrói toda sua filosofia política.

Segundo Hobbes, o ser humano não nasce livre, pois somente podemos nos considerar realmente livres quando somos capazes de avaliar as consequências, boas ou más, das nossas ações.

Hobbes ainda escreveu muitos outros livros falando sobre filosofia política e outros assuntos, oferecendo uma descrição da natureza humana como cooperação em interesse próprio. Foi contemporâneo de Descartes e escreveu uma das respostas para a obra Meditações sobre filosofia primeira, deste último. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. Abril 1588 – 4. Dezembro 1679
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Thomas Hobbes Frases famosas

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“O homem é o lobo do homem.”

na obra "Memórias de um gerubal", página 91 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=pfpTDKDH0TIC&pg=PA91&dq=O+homem+%C3%A9+o+lobo+do+homem, Roberto de Mello e Souza afirma que citação é de Plauto (século III-II a.C.), na quarta cena do segundo ato da comédia "Asinaria"; citação que Hobbes utilizou na obra "Sobre o cidadão"
"Memórias de um gerubal: a história (vivida) da administração de pessoal no Brasil de 1945 ao século XXI : formação de um executivo"; Por Roberto de Mello e Souza; Publicado por Senac, 2004; ISBN 8587864416, 9788587864413
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Variante: O homem é lobo do homem, em guerra de todos contra todos.

Citações de homens de Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes frases e citações

“Os costumes resultam do hábito convertido em caráter.”

Variante: Os costumes resultam do hábito convertido em carácter.

“Dinheiro é poder.”

Citado por Adam Smith em seu livro Riqueza das Nações

“As duas virtudes cardinais da guerra : força e fraude”

Variante: As duas virtudes cardinais na guerra são a força e a fraude.

“Ciência é o conhecimento das consequências, e da dependência de um fato em relação a outro.”

Thomas Hobbes, filósofo inglês, conforme encontrado em Singh, Simon - Big Bang - Capítulo: "O que é ciência?" - Editora Record - 2006 - pág.: 459
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“O medo do poder invisível, fingido pela mente, ou imaginado a partir de contos publicamente permitidos, é religião, se não permitidos, é superstição. E quando o poder é verdadeiramente imaginado, como nós imaginamos, é a verdadeira religião.”

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, religion; not allowed, superstition. And when the power imagined is truly such as we imagine, true religion.
"Leviathan", primeira parte; Por Thomas Hobbes; veja (wikisource)

“O fim da ciência é a petência (..). Em suma, toda a especulação foi instituída por ação ou trabalho concreto.”

Publicado Mundo da Filosofia; p. 208;25 ISBN 8587864416, 9788587864413
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Thomas Hobbes: Frases em inglês

“Hell is truth seen too late.”

Thomas Hobbes livro Leviathan

Fonte: Leviathan

“So that every Crime is a sinne; but not every sinne a Crime.”

Thomas Hobbes livro Leviathan

The Second Part, Chapter 27, p. 151
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“The Interpretation of the Laws of Nature in a Common-wealth, dependeth not on the books of Moral Philosophy.”

Thomas Hobbes livro Leviathan

The Second Part, Chapter 26, p. 143.
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Contexto: The Interpretation of the Laws of Nature in a Common-wealth, dependeth not on the books of Moral Philosophy. The Authority of writers, without the Authority of the Commonwealth, maketh not their opinions Law, be they never so true.

“So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death.”

Thomas Hobbes livro Leviathan

The First Part, Chapter 11, p. 47.
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Contexto: So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power: but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.

“and where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine:”

Thomas Hobbes livro Leviathan

The Second Part, Chapter 26, p. 140
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“Do not that to another, which thou wouldest not have done to thyselfe;”

Thomas Hobbes livro Leviathan

The First Part, Chapter 15, p. 79.
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Contexto: And though this may seem to subtile a deduction of the Lawes of Nature, to be taken notice of by all men; whereof the most part are too busie in getting food, and the rest too negligent to understand; yet to leave all men unexcusable, they have been contracted into one easie sum, intelligble, even to the meanest capacity; and that is, Do not that to another, which thou wouldest not have done to thyselfe; which sheweth him, that he has no more to do in learning the Lawes of Nature, but, when weighing the actions of other men with his own, they seem too heavy, to put them into the other part of the balance, and his own into their place, that his own passions, and selfe love, may adde nothing to the weight; and then there is none of these Laws of Nature that will not appear unto him very reasonable.

“It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.”

Thomas Hobbes livro Leviathan

The First Part, Chapter 5, p. 21 (See also: John Rawls).
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Contexto: It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles. For who is so stupid as both to mistake in geometry, and also to persist in it, when another detects his error to him?
By this it appears that reason is not, as sense and memory, born with us; nor gotten by experience only, as prudence is; but attained by industry: first in apt imposing of names; and secondly by getting a good and orderly method in proceeding from the elements, which are names, to assertions made by connexion of one of them to another; and so to syllogisms, which are the connexions of one assertion to another, till we come to a knowledge of all the consequences of names appertaining to the subject in hand; and that is it, men call science. And whereas sense and memory are but knowledge of fact, which is a thing past and irrevocable, science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another; by which, out of that we can presently do, we know how to do something else when we will, or the like, another time: because when we see how anything comes about, upon what causes, and by what manner; when the like causes come into our power, we see how to make it produce the like effects.
Children therefore are not endued with reason at all, till they have attained the use of speech, but are called reasonable creatures for the possibility apparent of having the use of reason in time to come.

“For it is not the bare Words, but the Scope of the writer that giveth true light,”

Thomas Hobbes livro Leviathan

The Third Part, Chapter 43, p. 331.
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Contexto: For it is not the bare Words, but the Scope of the writer that giveth true light, by which any writing is to bee interpreted; and they that insist upon single Texts, without considering the main Designe, can derive no thing from them clearly; but rather by casting atomes of Scripture, as dust before mens eyes, make everything more obscure than it is; an ordinary artifice of those who seek not the truth, but their own advantage.

“This is the Generation of that LEVIATHAN, or rather (to speake more reverently)of that Mortall God, to which we owe under the Immortal God, our peace and defence.”

Thomas Hobbes livro Leviathan

The Second Part, Chapter 17, p. 87 (See also: Ten Commandments).
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Contexto: I Authorize and give up my Right of Governing my selfe, to this Man, or to his Assembly of men, on this condition, that thou that give up thy Right to him, and Authorise all his Actionsin like manner. This done, the Multitude so united in one Person, is called a COMMON-WEALTH, in latine CIVITAS. This is the Generation of that LEVIATHAN, or rather (to speake more reverently)of that Mortall God, to which we owe under the Immortal God, our peace and defence.

“The office of the sovereign, be it a monarch or an assembly, consisteth in the end for which he was trusted with the sovereign power, namely the procuration of the safety of the people, to which he is obliged by the law of nature”

Thomas Hobbes livro Leviathan

The Second Part, Chapter 30: Of the Office of the Sovereign Representative.
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Contexto: The office of the sovereign, be it a monarch or an assembly, consisteth in the end for which he was trusted with the sovereign power, namely the procuration of the safety of the people, to which he is obliged by the law of nature, and to render an account thereof to God, the Author of that law, and to none but Him. But by safety here is not meant a bare preservation, but also all other contentments of life, which every man by lawful industry, without danger or hurt to the Commonwealth, shall acquire to himself.
And this is intended should be done, not by care applied to individuals, further than their protection from injuries when they shall complain; but by a general providence, contained in public instruction, both of doctrine and example; and in the making and executing of good laws to which individual persons may apply their own cases.

“And because the condition of Man, (as hath been declared in the precedent Chapter) is a condition of Warre of every one against everyone”

Thomas Hobbes livro Leviathan

The First Part, Chapter 14, p. 64.
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Contexto: And because the condition of Man, (as hath been declared in the precedent Chapter) is a condition of Warre of every one against everyone; in which case every one is governed by his own Reason; and there is nothing he can make use of, that may not be a help unto him, in preserving his life against his enemyes; It followeth, that in such a condition, every man has a Right to every thing; even to one anothers body.

“Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.”

Thomas Hobbes livro Leviathan

The First Part, Chapter 11, p. 47.
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Contexto: Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter. The cause whereof is that the object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time, but to assure forever the way of his future desire. And therefore the voluntary actions and inclinations of all men tend not only to the procuring, but also to the assuring of a contented life, and differ only in the way, which ariseth partly from the diversity of passions in diverse men, and partly from the difference of the knowledge or opinion each one has of the causes which produce the effect desired.

“The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method;”

Thomas Hobbes livro Leviathan

The First Part, Chapter 5, p. 20 (See also: Algorithms).
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Contexto: The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method; in that they begin not their Ratiocination from Definitions; that is, from settled significations of their words: as if they could cast account, without knowing the value of the numerall words, one, two, and three.

“And Covenants, without the Sword, are but Words, and of no strength to secure a man at all.”

Thomas Hobbes livro Leviathan

The Second Part, Chapter 17, p. 85.
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Contexto: For the Lawes of Nature (as Justice, Equity, Modesty, Mercy, and (in summe)doing to others, as wee would be done to,) of themselves, without the terrour of some Power, to cause them to be observed, are contrary to our naturall Passions, that carry us to Partiality, Pride, Revenge, and the like. And Covenants, without the Sword, are but Words, and of no strength to secure a man at all.

“Knowledge is power.”

Thomas Hobbes livro Leviathan

This is the sentence that dug the grave of philosophy in the nineteenth century. … This sentence brings to an end the tradition of a knowledge that, as its name indicates, was an erotic theory—the love of truth and the truth through love (Liebeswahrheit). … Those who utter the sentence reveal the truth. However, with the utterance they want to achieve more than truth: They want to intervene in the game of power.
Fonte: Kritik der zynischen Vernunft [Critique of Cynical Reason] (1983), p. xxvii
Fonte: Leviathan

“Life is nasty, brutish, and short”

Thomas Hobbes livro Leviathan

The First Part, Chapter 13, p. 62.
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Variante: And the life of man solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short.
Contexto: Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of Warre, where every man is Enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time, wherein men live without other security, than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them withall. In such condition, there is no place for Industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no Culture of the Earth; no Navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by Sea; no commodious Building; no Instruments of moving, and removing things as require much force; no Knowledge of the face of the Earth; no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continuall feare, and danger of violent death; And the life of man solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short.