The origin of the heterosexists gods: theories of the body in Descartes and Hobbes

Abstract

The objective of this work is to make visible in the core of modernity some of the philosophical foundations that directly or indirectly have served for the exclusion and oppression of dissident identities. In order to do so, the main characteristics of the theories of the human body in the thought of the fathers of Modernity, René Descartes and Thomas Hobbes will be analyzed under three points: the role of the body in the framework of each philosophy, its particular treatment and the consequences derived from each type of approach. Once this has been done, it will be possible to observe that the existence of God and the State is thanks to the fact that they have the main purpose of ordering the original equivocality attributed to our corporealities. Finally, with Butler, Foucault and Agamben, we will examine the logic underlying the interaction of these entities with the body and sexuality.