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- Title: The Two and the Many: Or, Lovers and Politics.
- Author : Modern Age
- Release Date : January 01, 2004
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 182 KB
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POLITICS IS THE WAY of organizing humans living-together. It is not a good, but the process for arriving at it. Politics overcomes a natural disorder, Thomas Hobbes's "war of all against all." Politics is, then, ignominious gathering, because it organizes out of natural necessity to prevent the Hobbesian war. Hobbes's solution was tyranny, one against all. Of course, ordering life for necessity reveals man's incapacity to rise above the ignominy in which Hobbes found him. This is the modern view of politics, somehow finding virtue in necessity, the material urges that bind man to the lowest side of nature. Modernity has tried to obscure these urges by giving equal weight to all of them under the heading of popular sovereignty, thus shifting the Hobbesian formula to the few and the many. But this only expands the tyrannical base of politics, guaranteeing the Hobbesian struggle in the name of popularity. Popular politics does not really resolve the struggle between the few and the many, it only offers temporary alliances for the sake of partial gratifications, thus institutionalizing the Hobbesian struggle in the form of pluralism. The order sought by organization frustrates the unity sought by the many and reveals the impermanence of politics, its incapacity to unite men beyond their urges.