https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.420
This paper investigates the analytic and synthetic method according to Thomas Hobbes. The author characterises its historical innovativeness and its application in Hobbes’s argument concerning authority and society. This method resulted in the construction o f the absolute power o f the sovereign chosen in the circumstances of the individuals’ fears for their own lives, as established in Leviathan. When analyzing this method and the result achieved by Hobbes, the author of this paper refers to the relationship o f statute law and natural law in the conception o f the author of Leviathan. He demonstrates that the idea o f society ruled by the sovereign is bound with changes in the understanding o f the relations between statute law and natural law established in the tradition. According to the author, Hobbes perceives the relationship between law and authority analogically to this in a society under the rule o f the sovereign. Moreover, the author discusses the relevance of this concept in contemporary conditions.
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