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Hobbes's political geometry

Geometry is widely held to occupy a privileged position in Hobbes’s political thought. This is for two main reasons which may be summarized as follows. First, geometry provides an exemplary model of the form which philosophical writing should take. It follows that political argumentation which refers to philosophy for justification should in some way conform to geometrical style. Second, geometry constitutes a vehicle through which an equivalence is established between a plenist ontology of bodies in motion and the ordering of the body politic. The ordering of the subjects of the commonwealth is regarded in terms of geometry understood as the science of the regular movement of bodies in space. In this respect Hobbes’s project may be characterized as the attempt to accomplish a political phoronomy which renders the political in terms of a purely geometrical theory of motion or general mechanics which considers the motion of bodies as absolutes. Not only does this mean that society is assumed to be inherently representable as