Hobbes promoted civility before the word civilization existed

Evidence

It is in this early semantic and linguistic context that Hobbes addresses and promotes civility, and almost inadvertently sets the stage for a new word and idea, ‘civilization.’ — , Stephanie B. Martens - Civilization and…, 48

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to the American imaginaries thread: the semantic pre-history of ‘civilization’ as distinct from ‘civility’ bears on how later American discourse conflates manners with political community. — connects to: Calling Hobbes a racist need not be anachronistic. — , Stephanie B. Martens - Civilization and…, 17; The word ‘civil’ shifted from civic to cultured behavior during the Renaissance — , Stephanie B. Martens - Civilization and…, 41; Hobbes’s prejudice against Native Americans was civilizational rather than racial. — , Stephanie B. Martens - Civilization and…, 71 (+2 more)
• SHARE: A nice narrow tidbit for a colleague working on the intellectual history of ‘civilization’ as a term.

Related

• Calling Hobbes a racist need not be anachronistic. (similarity 0.80)
• The concept of civilization emerged only in the modern era (similarity 0.79)
• The word ‘civil’ shifted from civic to cultured behavior during the Renaissance (similarity 0.79)
• Hobbes read contemporary American tribes as living evidence of Europe’s own ancient past. (similarity 0.79)
• Hobbes’s prejudice against Native Americans was civilizational rather than racial. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Hobbes’s prejudice against Native Americans was civilizational rather than racial. #expands (0.75) — , Stephanie B. Martens - Civilization and…, 71
• Hobbes treated injurious words to an enemy as an abuse of speech #expands (0.70) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 360
• For Hobbes, speech that corrects subjects one must govern is not abuse #expands (0.70)