The paper focuses on the connection between curiosity and anxiety for the future time in the anthropology of Hobbes' Leviathan. My aim is to underline the importance of this emotional connection for Hobbes' characterization of human nature and, at the same time, to identify its argumentative and political significance. In fact, both the endless search for power (which leads to the generalized conflict in the state of nature) and the religious sentiment (and thus, indirectly, the conflicts that arise from it) have their origin in this connection.
Prometheus bound. Curiosity and anxiety for the future time in Hobbes' Leviathan / Vassalle, Annamaria. - In: HUMANA.MENTE. - ISSN 1972-1293. - ELETTRONICO. - 12:(2010), pp. 23-42.
Prometheus bound. Curiosity and anxiety for the future time in Hobbes' Leviathan
VASSALLE, ANNAMARIA
2010
Abstract
The paper focuses on the connection between curiosity and anxiety for the future time in the anthropology of Hobbes' Leviathan. My aim is to underline the importance of this emotional connection for Hobbes' characterization of human nature and, at the same time, to identify its argumentative and political significance. In fact, both the endless search for power (which leads to the generalized conflict in the state of nature) and the religious sentiment (and thus, indirectly, the conflicts that arise from it) have their origin in this connection.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
