For while seventeenth-century theorists of
sovereignty such as Hobbes and Pufendorf
were consummate Latinists and admirers of
Roman personal ethics, they were resolutely
opposed to the role played by republican
doctrines in the religious controversies of
the day. Their reasoning was simple. From
the Reformations onwards the old feudal
kingdoms of western and central Europe had
been drowned in successive waves of internal
and international strife and bloodshed,
all prompted in good measure by the claim
that the call of religious authenticity, which
was to be found within the individual
Christian believer’s breast, took moral primacy
over the calls of order, reason and the
rule of law. The only cure for the disease of
intractable religious turmoil, according to
the theorists of sovereignty, was a general
agreement in the primacy of sovereignty
over all other political values (Pufendorf,
[1673] 1991: 139–41, 175–7).
For while seventeenth-century theorists ofsovereignty such as Hobbes and Pufendorfwere consummate Latinists and admirers ofRoman personal ethics, they were resolutelyopposed to the role played by republicandoctrines in the religious controversies ofthe day. Their reasoning was simple. Fromthe Reformations onwards the old feudalkingdoms of western and central Europe hadbeen drowned in successive waves of internaland international strife and bloodshed,all prompted in good measure by the claimthat the call of religious authenticity, whichwas to be found within the individualChristian believer’s breast, took moral primacyover the calls of order, reason and therule of law. The only cure for the disease ofintractable religious turmoil, according tothe theorists of sovereignty, was a generalagreement in the primacy of sovereigntyover all other political values (Pufendorf,[1673] 1991: 139–41, 175–7).
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