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Hobbes, Empire, and the Politics of the Cabal: Political Thought and Policy Making in the Restoration
Journal of British Studies ( IF 0.764 ) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 , DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2022.173
Matthew Ward, Jacqueline Rose

This article explores a sizable and largely unknown manuscript treatise from the 1670s, “Pax et Obedientia,” which discusses the Civil Wars, trade, the origins of government, toleration, plantations (especially Jamaica), and the royal supremacy, embedding within it a distinctive engagement with Hobbes and a particular vision of imperial composite monarchy. This first analysis of what “Pax” said, who wrote it, and why he did so in the way that he did nuances the present understanding of Restoration debates over a centralizing empire; it reveals the different forms that policy makers thought that empire might take, while also capturing a moment of transition between different meanings of imperium. The anonymous author's engagement with Hobbes further suggests how questions that later fell into the realm of political economy were discussed at the time, using the language of natural jurisprudence. In demonstrating the methodological necessity of utilizing both linguistic and institutional contexts, the authors argue that the apparent incoherence of “Pax” reflects an essential although ineptly executed strategy on the part of its author. Inchoate though the manuscript is, it offers a significant opportunity to understand the intellectual world of junior members of the government and to reconsider the intersection of political thinking and political action.



中文翻译:

霍布斯、帝国和阴谋集团的政治:复辟时期的政治思想和政策制定

本文探讨了 1670 年代的一篇规模庞大且基本上不为人知的手稿论文“Pax et Obedientia”,其中讨论了内战、贸易、政府的起源、宽容、种植园(尤其是牙买加)和皇室至上,其中嵌入了一个与霍布斯的独特接触以及对帝国复合君主制的特殊看法。第一次分析“Pax”说了什么,是谁写的,以及他为什么以他那样做的方式,对目前对中央集权帝国的复辟辩论的理解进行了细微差别;它揭示了政策制定者认为帝国可能采取的不同形式,同时也捕捉了帝国不同含义之间的过渡时刻. 这位匿名作者与霍布斯的接触进一步表明,后来属于政治经济学领域的问题在当时是如何使用自然法理学的语言进行讨论的。在论证利用语言和制度背景的方法论必要性时,作者认为“Pax”明显的不连贯反映了其作者的一个重要但执行不当的策略。尽管这份手稿尚不成熟,但它提供了一个重要的机会来了解政府初级成员的知识世界,并重新考虑政治思想和政治行动的交叉点。

更新日期:2022-12-19
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