Estado de naturaleza, naturaleza del Estado

Abstract

The author aims at: (1) Analyzing Hobb’s and Lock’s social-pact models, showing their defficiencies, especially their link to a political optimism, proved to be wrong through facts. (2) Proposing a criteria based upon the coexistence dynamism for the evaluation of the political legitimacy , a criteria that would serve as an approach to history and to the socialization process developed in it. (3) Describing the basic kinds of societies, making a special emphasis on the characteristics of the human kind fostered by liberal societies with a high technological development.

The text is inscribed within what one might denominate as a disenchanted rationalism. Rousseau provides some of the instruments applied and developed herein.