An Approach to the Role of Education in the Political Theory of Thomas Hobbes Un acercamiento al papel de la educación en la teoría política de Thomas Hobbes

Abstract

This paper shows a part of the reflections that have been made, based on authors
of the modernity, in this specific case Thomas Hobbes, on the concept of education and
the sense that this philosopher gives to it within his political theory. For this, in the first
place, the state of nature will be established, because that initial condition of the man,
exposed by Hobbes, has to be described and, in this sense, to analyze the function of
education; then the idea of social pact as the foundation of the Civil State will be
developed, and finally the function of education is explained, taking into account Hobbes's
thought, the man in his state of nature and what the pact seeks to solve