Las características de la naturaleza humana en De Cive y su afinidad con la violencia en Colombia

Abstract

According to Thomas Hobbes (1742) man is evil by nature and he is constantly afraid of the war of all against all. Likewise, the English author argues that civil societies are constituted on the fear and inclination of man of safeguard his own life. Man does not congregate until he feels the need to take shelter in the company of other men to scape the vilness and constant fear of the state of nature. So Hobbes begins a theoretical work to characterize the state of nature as the condition to which every man would be subjected in the absence of a civil state. There men have no law and must defend themselves from the vileness of other men. There are cases in which these characteristics correspond to events that ocurrid during the history of Colombia. Even in the present time some of this characteristics of the state of nature persist in the supposed civil state in in which the citizens of Colombia live. Thus, this work aims to show these relationships with the state of nature of Thomas Hobbes argued in De Cive and show how citizens understand human vileness as something that cannot be scaped and from which it must be defended, since these facts are what constitute the life in general of the subjects in the Colombian territory.