Abstract
There are many studies on Thomas Hobbes and his Leviathan work, which is well accepted as the culminating point of his authorship capacity, in the literature of Political Sciences. Generally in these studies, It is dwelt on the concepts such as state of nature, lex naturalis, the state, sovereignty, legitimacy, power, and authority, and the dimension of being/creating of the perceptive of the state which has been presented by Hobbes together with the origin of the state are discussed profoundly. There is no doubt that studying on Hobbes and Leviathan work requires to handle notion sets of Political Science. However, in this form, in the Leviathan work of Hobbes, the parts of the state’s functioning and administration, which he defined as an artificial person created by the contract, are missing. Therefore, studying on the conception of the state that Hobbes has revealed via Leviathan work, on the one hand, requires to dwell on some notions like the state, sovereignty, legitimacy, power, and authority. On the other hand, it also requires to have a reading on the notions which are in relation to Administrative Science such as public institutions, public officials, authorization, liability, order-advice and consultancy. In other words, studying on Hobbes’s conception of the state requires to deliberate over fundamental principles of the evolution and functioning of the state by means of both “being” and “doing” dimensions. In this study, Hobbes’s statements about the origin of the state and existential reason of the state are revealed. In the sequel, public institutions which are related to functioning of the state, public officials which are denominated as organs and articulars of the state, punishments and awards which are named as driving forces for those organs and articulars, and phenomenon of the consultancy which is set the framework of itself as a result of analysis of order and advice, have been dealt with. The reason of this is to discover according to which principles the functioning of the state, which is created by social contract, is built. In this study, Hobbes’s life and its historical conditions are also discussed. The aim here is to develop a holistic approach regarding the philosopher and his work.