A PAIXÃO POLÍTICA DO MEDO NA CONCEPÇÃO DE HOBBES

The fear-passion-natural transmutes itself into fear-passion-politics when the human craftsman, at the founding pact of the State, artificially constructs legal regulatory mechanisms (punitive laws, for example) to maximize the effectiveness and positivity of fear as motivational disciplinatory factor. The presence of fear has peculiar plasticity with regard to the ties of natural philosophy with the Hobbesian moral and political. The natural fear of dying prematurely (contranatural death) in a pre-political state of nature is the fundamental reason for making moral and political agreements that boost the renunciation of natural rights. The political fear is fear of the public sword, that is, the fear of future bad consequences reserved for the individual or citizen that does not fulfill his political contractual obligations.