Hobbes on Civil Association

Index

Index Absolutism, 66–67, 78 Astronomy, Hobbes’s focus on, 20 Atheism, 113n.72, 124 Absurdity, truth and, 24 & n.26 Act, as effect, 68n.118 Atomism, 64 Aubrey, John, 11 Adam (bib.), 89 Agreements, human, 90–92, 134; Augustine, Saint, 7, 18, 62, 88n.10, 161; on civil association, 77–78; “artificial,” 91. See also Covenants Ambition, 86, 91, 138, 139; reason and Hobbes compared, 60; on predicament of man, 63; on pride, trumped by, 134 Anger, 86, 134 63; on sin, 63 Authority, 67; civil vs. natural, 29; as Antiliberalism, rationalists and, 67n.116 man-assigned, 102 & n.49; sovereign, 136, 139 (see also Anxiety, prudence vs., 33 Appetite(s), 85–86; glory-driven, 87; Sovereignty) Avarice, 91, 138, 139; over reason, imagination-driven, 86; permissible, 100. See also 134. See also Covetousness Averroism, 18 Desire(s); Natural appetite Aquinas, Saint Thomas, 60, 78 Aversion, 32, 36, 85–86, 96; from shameful death, 88 Aristotle, 6, 61, 131, 143, 146, 149, 153, 154; on civil association, 77; Hobbes on, 13; on passions, 154 Bacon, Francis, 1, 20 Bentham, Jeremy, 59, 126 Armies, as sovereign resources, 46. See also War Berdyaev, Nikolai, 163 Body, motion and, 26 Art, Hobbes on, 28–30. See also Leviathan, as art Boëthius, 64n Bosanquet, Bernard, 157 Artifice, 28, 30, 60, 62. See also Civitas Bradley, F. H., vii, 59 166 Index Brandt (Hobbes critic), 155 Clarendon, Edward Hyde, earl of, 59 Brown, J. M., 134n Butler, Joseph, 59 Clinton, Sir Gervase, 2 Cognition, Cartesian celebration of, 64n Cartesianism, 64n. See also Rationalism, Cartesian Common good, morality of, 82, 83 Commonwealth. See Civitas Cause(s): Aristotelian, 25; and effect, 17–18, 24–26, 30. See also First Communal ties, morality of, 81–83 Communication, animal, 89–90 Cause Cavendish family, 1–3 Competition, 36–43, 49–50, 69, 86–88, 162; extremes of, 88n.10. Censorship, sovereign right of, 46 Charles II, king of England, 2 See also Enemies Confidence, glory and, 35. See also Choice, as moral-life imperative, 80–82 Self-esteem Confucius, 17n.7, 95 Christ, 51 Christianity, 51–57, 124; Hobbes as Conscience, 54, 100, 118 Constitutions, civil, 44 “enemy” of, 58–59; as Hobbes resource, 154 (see also Myth, Contempt, 98, 127 Copernicus, Nicolaus, 20 Leviathan as); medieval, 161; obligations inherent in, 56–57; Courage, 86, 128, 129, 131 Covenants, 41–43, 47–48, 54, 123, repentance central to, 38. See also Papacy; Scripture 134–40; credit and trust-based, 90–91; God and, 91, 115–16; Churches, 54–55; Hobbes’s mistrust of, 67; “laws” of, 103 obligation inherent in, 72–73; protection of, 106–7; sovereignty Civil (Hobbes term), 29 Civil association, 14, 27–30; civitas as and, 93. See also Agreements, human; Civil association engine of, 43; defined, vii–viii; essence of, 65; peace as goal of, Covetousness, 86, 134 Credit, commercial, 90–91 79. See also Sovereignty Civil law(s), 104, 106–9, 133; as Cruelty, 99 Cumberland, Richard, 67n.116 obligatory, 103, 105 Civil philosophy: characteristics of, 17, 29–30; Hobbes and, 16–17, Death, 32n, 36 & n.59; as civil punishment, 47, 49; competition 21–30 Civitas, 43, 110 & n, 115, 127; and, 37–38; fear of, 36, 39, 100, 127, 128, 131, 132, 147, 152, 153, Christian, 55; defined, 103; God and, 117; justice in, 132; law of, 162; life after, 112n.70, 123; preferred to shame, 130; shameful, 108n.59, 120, 121 (see also Civil law); obligations of, 105–7; 88, 92, 95, 96, 100, 101, 127–29, 131, 132; as ultimate aversion, 85; rationale underlying, 133–39; and sovereignty, 45 as ultimate dissatisfaction, 71; as Index 167 ultimate fear, 87–88, 92; violent, England, Hobbes’s concern for, 7 Epicureanism, ix, 154, 157, 158 36n.59, 88, 127, 128, 147, 152, 153 De Cive (Hobbes), 2, 14, 16, 36n.59, Epicurus, 13, 61 Erastus, Thomas, 74 141, 149; Strauss on, 150, 151 De Corpore (Hobbes), 3, 16, 149 Erigena, John Scotus, 11 Error, truth and, 24n.26 Defects, 35 De Homine (Hobbes), 3, 16, 149 Eternity, civil association and, 77 Euclid, 10, 11, 144–46, 148, 149, 151 Deism, 76 Deliberation, 32 Europe, 17th-century, 1–2, 73–74, 83 Evil: nature of, 32; pain as, 85 Descartes, René, 11, 13, 27, 156; and Hobbes compared, 13, 20. See also Evil (Hobbes’s term), 96 Existentialism, 163 Cartesianism Desire(s), 32, 86, 96 & n.32, 161–62; Experience, philosophy and, 18...