Hobbes seems to be one of the most controversial autors in Modern Political Theory. He developed a model of human nature which introduced in filosofical discussion a mecanicist physics that he created in the seventeeth century and also, at the same time, a concept of desire or conatus which he inherited from the Renaissance. Joining these two concept on his concept of liberty, he produced a filosofical system in which there is a progression from body – man – state (political body). This dissertation is intended to situate, within the discussion of human nature in Hobbes’ philosophical works, the political and religious conflict in which he took part and also the ones that he provocated, always having in mind the british revolutionary context (specially, the Puritan Revolution of 1640) and the seventeenth century Europe, in search for an interpretation that combines the doutrinary and historical views of his works. Through the study of traditional british historians and new interpreters of Hobbes’ works, this research tries to ease the negative vision of Hobbes, situating him not as a conservative supporter of absolutism, but as a moderate modern/iluminst, in search for a point of equilibrium for his new philosophy e for means to solve the problems of the complicated british political context. Both can only be found through acceptance of his point of view about human nature.