Der Mensch als natürliches und künstliches Wesen

Abstract

This article traces the heritage of the Aristotelian political investigations in Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan. It can be very important to note that the definition of man as a “social” animal will develop in Hobbes’s characterization by the opposite terms, the “natural” man and man “artifact”; two adjectives that Hobbes uses instead of “political”, the very Aristotelian adjective.