Religion, secularization and political thought : Thomas Hobbes to J.S. Mill / / edited by James E. Crimmins

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (215 p.)
• Disciplina: 201.650941
• Soggetto topico: Religion and politics - Great Britain - History; Secularism - History; Political science - Great Britain - History
• Altri autori: CrimminsJames E. <1953->
• Note generali: "First published in 1989"--T.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Orginal Title Page; Orginal Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Notes; 1. The religious and the secular in the work of Thomas Hobbes; Church and state; Revelation and Reason; Overlapping spheres; The divine law of reason; Reason and scriptural exegesis; Theology and the 'new science'; Conclusion; Notes; 2. John Locke: Socinian or natural law theorist?; The contemporary testimony; Hobbism; Socinianism; Reconstructing Locke's thought; Proofs of natural law; The argument from probability; Discovery and promulgation ; Exploring alternativesPossible interpretations; Dishonest Locke; Honest Locke; Inconsistent Locke; Acknowledgement; Notes; 3. The religious, the secular and the worldly: Scotland 1680-1800; The impact of the new philosophy; Theology and the practice or religion; Empiricism in natural and moral philosophy; Religion in a rational world; Notes; 4. Science and secularization in Hume, Smith and Bentham; The genealogy or 'scientism'; Scepticism versus certainty; A thoroughly secularized social science; Bentham's constructivism; Notes; 5. Edmund Burke and John Wesley: the legacy of Locke ; Lockeian epistemologyLockeian contractarianism; Wesley and Burke as Lockeian theorists; Notes; 6. Religion, utility and politics: Bentham versus Paley; Competing exponents of utility; The religious version of the doctrine of utility; Paley's conservatism; A secular utilitarian society; A paradoxical conclusion; Acknowledgement; Notes; 7. From God to man? F. D. Maurice and changing ideas of God and man; Of God, hell and salvation; Human nature and the relation of man to God; The law or fellowship; Ideas or God and man; Notes; 8. J. S. Mill and the religion of humanity ; A human truth disguised in theological formThe religious context or political thought; The character of Mill's liberalism; Re-interpreting Mill; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The increasing secularization of political thought between the mid-seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries has often been noted, but rarely described in detail. The contributors to this volume consider the significance of the relationship between religious beliefs, dogma and secular ideas in British political philosophy from Thomas Hobbes to J.S. Mill.During this period, Britain experienced the advance of natural science, the spread of education and other social improvements, and reforms in the political realm. These changes forced religion to account for itself and to justify its e
• Titolo autorizzato: Religion, secularization and political thought
• ISBN: 1-134-04746-0; 0-203-52949-9; 1-134-04739-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786393803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge library editions. . -Philosophy of religion.