LEVIATHAN-UL BIZANTIN? DE LA „ACTUALITATEA LUI HOBBES” LA ÎNDREPTAREA LEGII

Abstract

Starting from the debate in the 1930s on Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan (1651) and its apparent support to the totalitarian regimes during the 20th century, the following study analyses the defense of Hobbes by N. Iorga, according to whom Hobbes schuld rather be considered within Medieval political philosophy. While trying to understand the apparent reasons of such a qualification, we will follow the thought line of Iorga until the Recapitulation of Law (1652), advancing the hypothesisccording to which this last legislative monument from the Romanian Middle Ages can be considered as the answer given from within the Byzantine political-legal tradition both to the problem of religious wars in the 17th century, as well as to the epochal solution offered by Hobbes to these problem.