Religión y política en el leviatán de Thomas Hobbes

Abstract

At the beginning of modernity, after the collapse of the medieval thinking,the different fields of human knowledge started to experience a rationalization(secularization) process. Indeed, after this process human knowledge splitinto several fields. In particular, Thomas Hobbes´ Leviathan is one of thefirst academic efforts to separate religion and politics. In this paper I studythis issue. Instead of presenting the internal structure of the hobbesian´ssocial contract, my goal here is to show that in Leviathan the political intentionis to justify the State´s authority by means one agreement among free andequal men, which is connected with one religious purpose: to institute theGod´s kingdom in earth.