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. . . .