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Religion, Politics and Thomas Hobbes (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006)
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Religion, Politics and Thomas Hobbes (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006)
Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees, 195
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The essaysthat comprise thisvolume were written over the period of
some ten years, for different purposes and on different occasions,
but they are unitedby a number of features, which this preface may
serve to indicate. While the collection begins with a translation
drawn from the fourth p- sentation of Hobbes's political thought,
namely, the Latin Leviathan of 1668, after The Elements of Law
(1640), De Cive (1642 and 1647) and the English Leviathan of 1651,
the focus of the essays is largely on theEnglish version of his
masterpiece of political philosophy. It isthe center of
gravityinthe twenty eight years spanninghis departure from England
for exile in France in 1640 till the publication in 1668 of the
Latin Leviathan, withits lengthy and c- plex Appendix. The
translation andintroduction of theAppendix, previously published,
appears here with several revisions and additions, as does the
essay 'Thomas Hobbes and the EconomicTrinity. ' A second feature
common to these essays isthe deliberate attempttomake sense of
thereligious elements inHobbes's thought, bothintheir own rightand
inrelation to his politics and natural science. These themes are
woven together in complex ways. For instance, objecting to the use
of Greek philosophic language and concepts to interpret the
doctrines of the Christian religion, he propounds what he takes to
be a more thoroughly scriptural interpretation, in pursuit of the
goal of demolishing the basis for anypower inthe state independent
of thecivil sovereign.
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