Autor
Palabras clave
teoría del Estado
filosofía política
materialismo
teología política.
Resumen
Este artículo toma como punto de partida la distinción hobbesiana entre soberanía y administración, especialmente clara en De Cive, para mostrar cómo el análisis hobbesiano del despliegue administrativo del Estado máquina complementa su concepción del Estado como persona artificial. En primer lugar, se ordenan y sistematizan las observaciones de Hobbes sobre el despliegue administrativo de la soberanía y se hace explícita la tensión dialéctica entre los conceptos de soberanía y administración. A continuación, se analiza cómo esa tensión dialéctica informa y estructura el análisis que hace Hobbes de las circunstancias particulares de la guerra civil inglesa, y se señalan las consecuencias teóricas generales que tiene dicho análisis. Por último, se toma en consideración que la relación jurídica entre soberanía y administración es análoga en el pensamiento de Hobbes a la relación teológica entre Dios como causa primera y la naturaleza como orden de las causas segundas.
Keywords
State theory; political philosophy; materialism; political theology.
Abstract
This article takes as point of departure the Hobbesian distinction, which is
especially clear in De Cive, between sovereignty and administration, in order to show
how Hobbes’s analysis of the administrative deployment of the state-machine
complements his understanding of the state as an artificial person. First, Hobbes’s
observations about the administrative deployment of sovereignty are ordered and
systematized, making the dialectical tension between the concepts of sovereignty
and administration explicit. Afterwards, I analyse how that dialectical tension informs
and structures Hobbes’s analysis of the particular circumstances of the English Civil
War, and the general theoretical consequences of that analysis are pointed out. Last,
I take into consideration that the juridical relationship between sovereignty and
administration is analogous in Hobbes’s thought to the theological relation between
God as first cause and nature as the order of second causes.
especially clear in De Cive, between sovereignty and administration, in order to show
how Hobbes’s analysis of the administrative deployment of the state-machine
complements his understanding of the state as an artificial person. First, Hobbes’s
observations about the administrative deployment of sovereignty are ordered and
systematized, making the dialectical tension between the concepts of sovereignty
and administration explicit. Afterwards, I analyse how that dialectical tension informs
and structures Hobbes’s analysis of the particular circumstances of the English Civil
War, and the general theoretical consequences of that analysis are pointed out. Last,
I take into consideration that the juridical relationship between sovereignty and
administration is analogous in Hobbes’s thought to the theological relation between
God as first cause and nature as the order of second causes.