Abstract

For Hobbes, the human nature is selfishness, and this is translated in individual isolation, or hostile attitude--"war of everything against all"--in effect, each one sees in himself his only purpose. In consequence, what pushes the main to join with other men in a stable and rigidly organized society as the state is, it is not the benevolence, but the reciprocal fear of the inevitable evil that constantly threaten the individual in his "natural state". For Schmitt, the political conflict and, in last instance the war, is also inevitable, since behind its apparent valorative neutrality, it cannot hide its moral judgment about the necessary relation among war, politics and human nature. Schmitt has assumed that the only way of comprehending seriously the political phenomenon is to admit the evilness inherent to the human nature. (edited).