Da liberdade dos súditos em Hobbes à liberdade dos cidadãos em Rousseau

Abstract

The intention is to examine the conception of Hobbes of which freedom of the subjects lies in the silence of the civil laws, which express the will of the sovereign, in opposition to Rousseau’s conception of the freedom of citizens comes from submission to civil laws, which express the general will of the body politic. It is intended to highlight differences between these two ways of thinking about the relationship between law and freedom, indicating how they are the foundation of two distinct ways of thinking about freedom in contemporary society: the liberal conception and the republican conception.