Hobbes defines enemies only negatively as non-subjects, including banished men
Evidence
Enemies are not subjects (“all men that are not subjects are either Enemies, or else they have ceased from being so, by some precedent covenants,” ch. 28, 219), and “a banished man” is “a lawful enemy of the Common-wealth that banished him” (ch. 28, 218). — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 364
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to Schmitt’s friend-enemy distinction in political theology, the very tradition Anidjar is critiquing. — connects to: Calling Hobbes a racist need not be anachronistic. — , Stephanie B. Martens - Civilization and…, 17