Hobbes’s theory aimed to eliminate the problem of conquest from politics

Evidence

What Hobbes is trying, then, not to refute, but to eliminate and render impossible— his strategic opposite number—is a certain way of making historical knowledge work within the political struggle. To be more specific, Leviathan’s strategic opposite number is, I think, the political use that was being made in political struggles of a certain historical knowledge pertaining to wars, invasions, pillage, dispossessions, confiscations, robbery, exaction, and the effects of all that, the effects of all these acts of war, all these feats of battle, and the real struggles that go on in the laws and institutions that apparently regulate power. In a word, what Hobbes wants to eliminate is the Conquest, and also the use that was being made, in both historical discourse and political practice, of the problem of the Conquest. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 114

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the toolkit’s question of how modern political theory, and later colonial administration, writes out histories of dispossession and force. — connects to: The hobbesian state of nature is permanent diplomatic representation, not actual war — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 109; Hobbes’s social contract theory suppressed a discourse of permanent civil war — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 115; Hobbesian sanctions produce egoistic macro-motivation to cooperate — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 194 (+2 more)

Related

• Hobbes’s social contract theory suppressed a discourse of permanent civil war (similarity 0.86)
• Hobbes denies war any role in founding sovereignty (similarity 0.82)
• The hobbesian state of nature is permanent diplomatic representation, not actual war (similarity 0.82)
• War is the permanent underpinning of social institutions; this is Hobbes’s great adversary. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Hobbes denies war any role in founding sovereignty #expands (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 113
• Hobbesian sanctions produce egoistic macro-motivation to cooperate #expands (0.80) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 194
• Hobbesian logic justifies the excluded organizing into murder gangs #complicates (0.70)