Keywords
concept of “protection-obedience”
liberalism
free market
regulation by the state
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Abstract
The problem with global poverty is at the core of philosophical and legal theory. The present essay is an attempt to display the necessary tools, beginning with Thomas Hobbes´s political thought, that will allow defending the following thesis: The concept of the political in which the state is justified solely as a warrant of rights of property and the fulfillment of contracts, withdrawing from the achievement of minimum existential necessities and thriving them to the “invisible hand” of the market, is of the main causes of poverty in the world today. To achieve the aforementioned the reader will find a interpretation of Hobbes that differs from traditional standards and it is mainly based on Carl Schmitt´s writings and its relation with the concept of “protection-obedience”This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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