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Was Hobbes the first great architect of modern political philosophy? Highly critical of the classical tradition in philosophy, particularly Aristotle, Hobbes thought that he had established a new science of morality and politics. Devin Stauffer here delves into Hobbess critique of the classical tradition, making this oft-neglected aspect of the philosophers thought the basis of a new, comprehensive interpretation of his political philosophy.In Hobbess Kingdom of Light, Stauffer argues that Hobbes was engaged in a struggle on multiple fronts against forces, both philosophic and religious, that he thought had long distorted philosophy and destroyed the prospects of a lasting peace in politics. By exploring the twists and turns of Hobbess arguments, not only in his famous Leviathan but throughout his corpus, Stauffer uncovers the details of Hobbess critique of an older outlook, rooted in classical philosophy and Christian theology, and reveals the complexity of Hobbess war against the Kingdom of Darkness. He also describes the key features of the new outlookthe Kingdom of Lightthat Hobbes sought to put in its place. Hobbess venture helped to prepare the way for the later emergence of modern liberalism and modern secularism. Hobbess Kingdom of Light is a wide-ranging and ambitious exploration of Hobbess thought.

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Hobbess Kingdom of Light

A Study of the Foundations of Modern Political Philosophy

DEVIN STAUFFER

The University of Chicago Press

Chicago and London

The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637

The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London

2018 by The University of Chicago

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations in critical articles and reviews. For more information, contact the University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637.

Published 2018

Printed in the United States of America

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ISBN -13: 978-0-226-55290-3 (cloth)

ISBN -13: 978-0-226-55306-1 (e-book)

DOI : https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226553061.001.0001

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Stauffer, Devin, 1970 author.

Title: Hobbess kingdom of light : a study of the foundations of modern political philosophy / Devin Stauffer.

Description: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017044569 | ISBN 9780226552903 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780226553061 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH : Hobbes, Thomas, 15881679. | Hobbes, Thomas, 15881679Political and social views. | Political scienceHistory17th century. | Church and state.

Classification: LCC B 1247 . S 73 2018 | DDC 320.01dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017044569

This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper).

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Much of the work on this book was done during the academic year of 201314, while I was on a fellowship in Munich. I would like to thank the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation for that extraordinary opportunity and its director, Heinrich Meier, for his support and friendship. I would also like to thank David Bolotin, Christopher Bruell, Timothy Burns, Eric Buzzetti, and Hannes Kerber for reading and commenting on my manuscript as it was in the works.

My deepest debt is to my wife, Dana Stauffer, for the many hours she devoted to reading and discussing drafts of chapters, as well as for the love, wisdom, and patience she showed during the years I was working on this book. Diomedes was right when he said that it is better when two go together.

An earlier version of chapter 1 appeared as Of Darkness from Vain Philosophy: Hobbess Critique of the Classical Tradition, American Political Science Review 110 (August 2016): 48194, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055416000812, American Political Science Association 2017. A few paragraphs from chapter 2 appeared in earlier form in an essay, Hobbes on Nature and Its Conquest, in Mastery of Nature: Promises and Prospects, edited by Svetozar Y. Minkov and Bernhardt L. Trout (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), 2018 University of Pennsylvania Press. An earlier version of a part of chapter 3 appeared as Of Religion in Hobbess Leviathan, Journal of Politics 72 (July 2010): 86879, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022381610000228, Southern Political Science Association, 2010. Chapter 4 is a revised version of an essay, Hobbess Natural Theology, published in Political Philosophy Cross-Examined: Perennial Challenges to the Philosophic Life, edited by Thomas L. Pangle and J. Harvey Lomax (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 13751, Thomas L. Pangle and J. Harvey Lomax, 2013, with permission of Springer Nature. The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin provided the photograph of the engraved title page of Hobbess Leviathan that appears in the appendix.

Below is a list of the editions of Hobbess works I cite in my text, beginning in each case with the abbreviation by which the work is cited. If a work contains article numbers within each chapter, that is the form in which I cite it (e.g., De Cive 1.7). In the case of Leviathan (that is, the English Leviathan), I have followed Edwin Curleys creation of a similar system, based on the paragraph divisions in the Molesworth edition, which are almost identical to those in the original Head edition. Although these paragraph numbers are not present in the recently published Clarendon edition of Leviathan, which is now the authoritative edition and the source from which I draw direct quotations, I use Curleys chapter and paragraph system rather than the page numbers of the Clarendon edition because the former allows readers to see immediately what chapter is being cited and thus to locate a given passage in one of the numerous other editions of Leviathan. For all works besides Leviathan, if a work cannot be cited by chapter and article, it is cited either in a specified form (for example, by letter number in the case of Hobbess Correspondence) or, in all unspecified instances, by page number.

Translations from Hobbess Latin works are my own. In my quotations of Hobbess English works, I have taken the liberty, where it has not already been done by an editor, of modernizing Hobbess spelling, punctuation, and capitalization, except where doing so runs the risk of distorting his meaning. Although this modernization sacrifices something of the texture of Hobbess writing, it makes for greater readability and avoids unnecessary distractions. All remaining instances of emphasis, whether by italics or by capitalization, are from Hobbes himself, unless otherwise noted.

A Dialogue	A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England. Edited by Joseph Cropsey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971.
Anti-White	Critique du De Mundo de Thomas White. Edited by Jean Jacquot and Harold Whitmore Jones. Paris: J. Vrin, 1973.
Beh.	Behemoth, or the Long Parliament. Edited by Ferdinand Tnnies, with an Introduction by Stephen Holmes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
Correspondence	The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes. Edited by Noel Malcolm. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.
De Cive	De Cive The Latin Version. Edited by Howard Warrender. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. I refer in one instance in my notes to the English translation by Michael Silverthorne in On the Citizen, edited by Richard Tuck and Michael Silverthorne (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). I have also consulted that edition when translating passages from De Cive.
De Corp.	De Corpore: Elementorum Philosophiae Sectio Prima. Edited by Karl Schuhmann. Paris: J. Vrin, 1999.
De Hom.	De Homine. In Thomae Hobbes Malmesburiensis Opera Philosophica quae Latine Scripsit Omnia, Vol. 2, 1132. Edited by Sir William Molesworth. London: John Bohn, 183945.
Elem.	The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic. In Human Nature and De Corpore Politico. Edited by J. C. A. Gaskin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
EW IV	The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, Vol. 4. Edited by Sir William Molesworth. London: John Bohn, 183945. The relevant contents of

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