Thomas Hobbes’s New Political Science as a Technology of Power

Abstract

The aim of the article is to demonstrate that Thomas Hobbes created a new model of political science – technology of power or political engineering – and to describe its characteristic. Hobbes’s political thoughts was inspired after achievement and methods of alexandrian scientist and technician – for example Heron, Vitruvius, pseudo-Aristotle, Proclos – and theirs renaissance heritors, so-called virtuoso, as Leonardo da Vinci, Leon Battista Alberti and others. The article shows that Hobbes solved question “how to provide a stabile and fair social community or political body?” in the same way as technicians think out problem of forming new artifacts, because conception of law of nature wasn’t only an explanation of human conduct, but, on the other hand, a principle of rational construction of state. At the end of paper I show that established political bodies function just like others natural bodies and automats so Hobbes treated on social community using notions of jatrophysics.