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A Autoridade da Lei e a Força do Direito

2014; Philosophy Documentation Center; Volume: 22; Issue: 43 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5840/philosophica201422432

2183-0134

Delamar José Volpato Dutra,

Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought

The article presents the Hobbesian connection between natural law and civil law, and denies that it involves a complete renounce of natural right. Therefore, the article sustains the permanence of a residual natural right, even after the birth of the Leviathan, without for that reason incurring in an insurmountable instability for the sovereign.