Between the ancient and modern: learning through of the history in Thomas Hobbes

Abstract

In the quarrel between Ancients and Moderns, Thomas Hobbes appears as someone who usedthe history with political intentions. As a ancient’s reader and Renaissance’s heir, its receptionguide a conceptual apparatus that is on the one hand, shared by his contemporaries, and onthe other hand, appropriated in a peculiar way, according to the vision and interpretation thathas about his time and the histories that he read and heard. This paper is a cursory andintroductory demonstrate some of the relations that the thinker makes with the history and howthis link to his political theory and his historical moment, marked by the search for meaning inthe ancient world. Since 1628, when translated to English the Peloponnesian War by Thucydidesuntil 1668, when he writes the history of the war he witnessed,  The Behemoth or the LongParliament, Hobbes sees the practice of historiography learning and teaching. She is the greatteacher and with she warned about the imminent danger of a return to the “state of nature".