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But Hobbes saw Aristotle quite differently.
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For Hobbes, Aristotle taught
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the dangerous doctrine of republican government
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that was seen to be practiced particularly during
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the Cromwellian Period in England, during the civil war.
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Aristotle's doctrine that man is a political animal, Hobbes believed,
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could only result and did result, in fact, in regicide,
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the murder of kings.
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There are certainly echoes of this reading of Aristotle
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as a teacher of participatory republican government
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in the later writings of democratic thinkers
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from Tocqueville to Hannah Arendt.