A eloquência no pensamento político de Thomas Hobbes

Abstract

This study aims to examine the theoretical assumptions which underpin their support for Hobbes civil science, which apparently denotes some conflict as to whether he make use of eloquence as an art of rhetoric implicitly in the Elements of Law and Do citizen to align part of the holy bible to civil obedience. While clearly the author in the works cited above condemns such aspect of eloquence, paradoxically, in its two political works later, Leviathan and Behemoth, Hobbes explicitly makes use of this and concluded that it is needed as a force supporting the reason to conform the human passions in civil obedience.