
GLORY AND THE EVOLUTION OF HOBBES'S DISAGREEMENT THEORY OF WAR: FROM ELEMENTS TO LEVIATHAN
The centrality of glory, contempt and revengefulness to Leviathan's account of war is highlighted by three contextual features: Hobbes's displacement of the traditional conception of glory as intrinsically intersubjective and comparative; his incorporation of the Aristotelian
view that revengefulness is provoked by expressions of mere contempt; and the evolution of his account between 1640 and 1651. An archeology of Leviathan's famous Chapter Thirteen confirms that Hobbes's thesis throughout his career was that disagreement is the universal cause of war
because prickly, glory-seeking humans view its expression as a sign of contempt: although Leviathan abandons Hobbes's previous argument that war is primarily rooted in vainglorious individuals pursuing domination, Leviathan's 'glory' argument for war is a descendent of
the older 'comparison', not 'vanity', argument.
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Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: Professor, Department of Political Science, McGill University, 855 Sherbrooke Street West, H3A 2T7, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [email protected] mcgill.ca
Publication date: January 1, 2020