O MEDO E A RELIGIÃO NO LEVIATÃ DE HOBBES

Abstract

This thesis, developed at the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás, scoped of the Stricto Sensu Post-Graduation Program in Religious Sciences, level doctorate, integrates the area of concentration Religion, Culture, and Society, and is part of the research line Culture and Symbolic Systems. It investigates to what extent the Hobbesian State theory in the Leviathan, comes from the religious values of that time. The fear of Hobbes is the fruit of the culture and the imaginary of his time because they are structures that are part of the identity of those people. The Religion in the theory of the Hobbesian State, present in Leviathan, conferred an idea that the divine power rules over the process of human organization in this world, for the fear that impelled the human being to transfer power to the State is not only the Hobbesian fear of violent death, but also the fear of the religious and cultural dimensions that were embedded in the worldviews of Hobbes and the society of his time. It is supported by the hermeneutics, using the technique of bibliographic research and analysis of speech. The main sources are the written documentation found in the work Hobbes Leviathan and scholars who analyze the relationship between religion and State based on this work. It is concluded that, despite the constant presence of religion in the time of Hobbes, he, in his text, condemns the attitude of religious leaders who use the name of God to gain benefits, but he himself could not abstain from religion.